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A German teenager begins to lose his identity and any hope of returning to the present when his time-traveling journeys take him further and further into the past.

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Z's liked what we've read but it seems to have fallen by the wayside for several other books. We'll come back to it at some point.
Un viaje por el tiempo y la historia gracias a las imágenes. A Robert, el joven protagonista, le basta ver una imagen ? ya sea en la televisión, en el cine, en un cuadro o en una fotografía? para introducirse en la escena que contempla. Es así como el lector viajará por distintos países y épocas: la Alemania nazi, la guerra de los Treinta Años o la revolución rusa serán escenarios de estos siete viajes, de estas siete aventuras diferentes que nos harán entender que detrás de cada imagen existe una historia, un mundo, una época, y que el deber de cada uno es preguntarse sobre su significado.

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295+ Works 5,865 Members
Hans Magnus Enzensberger is internationally known as an essayist, journalist, and poet

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Bell, Anthea (Translator)
Meijerink, Gerda (Translator)

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Canonical title*
Waar was je, Robert?
Original title
Wo warst du, Robert?
Alternate titles
Where were you, Robert?
Original publication date
1998 (Duits) (Duits); 1999 (Nederlands) (Nederlands)
People/Characters*
Robert
Original language*
Duits
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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
833.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901945-1990
LCC
PZ7 .E72455 .LLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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12 — Catalan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
22
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