Invitation to the Bold of Heart

Dorothee Elmiger

Original title: Einladung an die Waghalsigen

Translated by Katy Derbyshire earliest edition we have, 2010 University of Chicago Press, 2018 152 pages

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"A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of Invitation to the Bold of Heart, the debut novel by Swiss writers Dorothee Elmiger, are the last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled by devastation. But the sisters won't accept...

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This book in English

Katy Derbyshire 2 printings we hold · 2011–2018 · Seagull Books

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Editions we hold

Invitation to the Bold of Heart edition · 2018 · University of Chicago Press · 152 pages · 9780857426147
Cesurlara Davet paperback · 2017 · Delidolu · 136 pages · 9786055060817
Invitation to the bold of heart edition · 2011 · Seagull Books · 152 pages · 9780857420190
Einladung an die Waghalsigen edition · 2010 · DuMont · 143 pages · 9783832196127

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