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Published on Oct 13, 2015 | 192 Pages
One brave girl takes an extreme step to protect two abused children
When thirteen-year-old Mascha is sent to her grandparents’ for the summer, she spends her days bored and lonely at a nearby playground. There she meets Julia and Max, two young siblings who are incredibly shy and withdrawn. Mascha soon begins to suspect that they are being physically abused by their father, a prominent member of their small community. She tells her grandparents and the authorities, but they all refuse to believe her.
Mascha can’t let the abuse go on, so she takes matters into her own hands. Already an international award winner, this beautifully written novel is a haunting and timely tale.
Author
Susan Kreller
Susan Kreller is a freelance journalist and writer. She has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize twice and has won the Kranichsteiner literary prize. You Can’t See the Elephants (Elefanten sieht man nicht) is her first novel.
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