Benjamin Lebert

Una novela en clave autobiográfica que narra la historia de un adolescente con una minusvalía física que vive marcado por el fracaso escolar. La primera novela de este joven autor de diecisiete años entra de lleno en el mundo de los adolescentes y en tan solo diez dias fue record de ventas en Alemania

wo messengers, six allies, one fight for survival! A gateway to a world of the past, of vanished names, hopes and dreams has opened in the depths of the Black Forest. Two messengers have come to our present from the immense sunken realms of time. Tristan is the messenger of doom. Martha is the messenger of preservation. They used to be lovers, now they are sworn enemies. They have come together to fight one final, decisive battle. But they cannot fight this fight alone. Both must win allies to fight by their side. Time is of the essence and there can only be a few - everything revolves around the eight, a mystical number that refers to infinity. Tristan and Martha must search the Black Forest to find six comrades-in-arms to join their fight. Ultimately, five fighters for doom and three fighters for preservation will face each other. And the battle of the eight will continue until only one of them is left and the fate of humanity is sealed. For many years Benjamin Lebert has been one of the most interesting literary voices in Germany. -Joachim Scholl, Deutschlandradio Kultur In short chapters with many changes of perspective, preliminary interpretations and cliff hangers, Benjamin Lebert creates a rapid narrative pace at which he seldom decelerates. Atmospherically dense, he describes uncanny encounters in the forest, and in a sometimes very poetic language he lets the reader participate in the emotional world of the protagonists. -Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Henry and Paul are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: young guys adrift in the big city, relationships gone wrong, broken hearts. Henry is running away from a triangle of friendship gone sour; Paul is running away too, but as the night unfolds and the train speeds north across the German landscape, his story turns ominous. What he finally reveals to his unsuspecting traveling companion goes into the darkest sphere of human behavior. Shocking and raw, The Bird is a Raven is the work of a writer at the beginning of a stellar career.

A smart, funny, poignant, very modern autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old. LikeCatcher in the Rye,Crazy appeals to the teenager in us all. Benni himself is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (hes been kicked out of four boarding schools in his short life and has just entered his fifth). So hes a little odd, but hes cool and he finds other strange boys to hang with. Together they set out to experience what they can: girls, booze, sex, philosophy, drugs, sex, books, music, sexpretty much everything whatever. And Benni lets us in on "the crazy life" he figures is the only way to deal with the crazy world.

?Hola a tots. Em dic Benjamin Lebert, tinc setze anys i sóc esguerrat?, diu a tall de presentació. Pero aquesta discapacitat no el fa sentir-se marginat ni fora de lloc; de fet, se sent tan inadaptat com qualsevol altre jove de la seva edat. Es un desastre en els estudis -ha passat ja per quatre instituts i encara arrossega el primer de secundaria.Ara els pares han decidit matricular-lo a un internat esperant aconseguir el miracle de l?aprovat, pero en Benjamin i la seva nova colla tenen altres plans mes divertits i esbojarrats: s?estimen mes escapar-se de nit, beure fins a vomitar, provar el sexe i revoltar-se. Ell, com en Holden d?El vigilant en el camp de segol, te por de fer-se gran i no vol, per a res del mon, deixar de ser jove.BENJAMIN LEBERT (Friburg 1982) ha estat considerat com un fenomen, el Mozart de la literatura. Amb nomes setze anys publica Crazy, que es rebuda per la critica i els mitjans amb un entusiasme excepcional: se?l compara amb Hemingway, Grass, Boll i Salinger, i esdeve un best seller indiscutible en molt pocs mesos. Traduda a mes de vint llengues i portada a les pantelles cinematografiques, Crazy es un exemple clar de l?impressionant talent narratiu d?un autor que els joves han fet seu.