Platypus Deluxe

  • System crasher meets small town idyll
  • Blunt, clever, and touching
  • For readers aged 14+

Before this story begins, a coffee machine is flying out of the teacher's room window. Why? Kim has lost control, again, and hurled it out of the window. That’s the final straw: Kim is expelled from school. Her mother is at the end of her wits, too, and sends Kim off to a village in the middle of nowhere, to live for some time with her ex-boyfriend René. Kim goes to school there and works part-time at a petrol station, where she meets Janne, who comes by regularly to buy more peanut butter chocolate bars. Against their will, and from lack of alternatives, Janne and Kim become something like friends. But they don't stay friends for long. A third girl, Alexandra, joins them, and they become a threesome. Soon they no longer really know who feels what for whom. And if that weren't complicated enough, Kim is constantly fighting the urge to destroy everything that gets too close to her.

Sarah Jäger tells a clever, touching and humorous story about a three-way friendship that was doomed to fail from the start.

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  • Publisher: Rotfuchs
  • Release: 01.07.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-7571-0091-9
  • 208 Pages
  • Author: Sarah Jäger
Platypus Deluxe
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Sarah Jäger

Sarah Jäger lives in the Ruhr area, is a trained theatre pedagogue and works in the field of cultural education. She is always on the lookout for novels and stories that hit the head, heart and stomach. Her novel The Night as Big as Us was nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize and the Paul Maar Prize for Young Talents in 2022.

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