Why We Took the Car
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Editor’s note Wolfgang Herrndorf’s 2010 novel follows two fourteen-year-olds from Berlin, Maik and the Russian-German newcomer Tschick, on a summer road trip in a stolen Lada through the countryside of eastern Germany. It won the German Youth Literature Prize in 2011 and quickly became standard school reading. Herrndorf wrote it while seriously ill and died in 2013; Fatih Akin filmed it in 2016.
About the book
Why We Took the Car is a youth novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf first published in German by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010. The English edition, translated by Tim Mohr, was published by Scholastic in 2014.