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Foreign Right Catalogue Obelisk Verlag Children´s book publishing house Renate Welsh Kaethe Recheis Saskia Hula Michaela Holzinger Jutta Treiber
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The storyline has been set up as a diary. The<br />
respective period is September 2013 to<br />
September 2015. Main character is a 15-year<br />
old girl named Talitha, who lives with her parents<br />
and two brothers in her grandparents<br />
(her dad’s parents) house in the Christian part<br />
of the historic city of Damascus. She is from a<br />
Syrian, Christian-Orthodox family; her father is<br />
a doctor, her mum used to work as an interpreter.<br />
Talitha is very close to her grandmother<br />
(Qashto), who lives at Maalula and who Talitha<br />
spends many weeks every year with.<br />
Carolin Philipps<br />
Talitha<br />
ISBN 978-3-85197-825-4<br />
14+ Years | 160 Pages | 12,95 Euro<br />
Published: 2016<br />
All rights available -<br />
4.000 Copies<br />
In Damascus as well as in Maalula Christians<br />
and Muslims have been peacefully living next<br />
door to each other for centuries, and Talitha‘s<br />
family also has many Muslim friends. Naturally,<br />
Christmas and the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice are<br />
celebrated together.<br />
Talitha‘s family is rather apolitical. The motto<br />
stipulated by the grandfather is: as long as<br />
President Assad grants us free exercise of religion<br />
we will stick by him. Christian will always<br />
have to suffer in an Islamic suffer.<br />
Carolin Philipps was born in 1954 in Meppen, Germany. After studies in his-<br />
tory she published her first book for young people in 1990, Großvater und das<br />
Vierte Reich [Grandfather and the Fourth Empire], about the German neo-<br />
Nazi scene. The book was an overwhelming success, has been translated into<br />
several languages, she received numerous awards and has been filmed for<br />
television. Since then, many books for young children have followed topics<br />
such as racism, child labour, homosexuality, autism, cybermobbing and sexu-<br />
al abuse. She has received many awards for her work, including the Mentioning<br />
Award of Unesco for Peace and Tolerance for Milchkaffee und Streuselkuchen<br />
[White Coffee and Streusel Cake], the Swiss Bookstar for Made in Vietnam<br />
[Made in Vietnam] and the Austrian Youth Book Award 2011 for Wofür die<br />
Worte fehlen [When the Words are Missing]. In addition to the youth books,<br />
Carolin Philipps also writes historical biographies for adults. She received the Annalise Wagner Prize<br />
in 2011 for Luise – die Königin und ihre Geschwister [Louise – the Queen and her Sisters], which<br />
went straight onto the Spiegel Bestseller list, when it was published in 2010.
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