Krabat

Somebody asked me which is the first German book I will read. This decision was made for me by N who presented me with this copy today:

This book is very, very important to him, as it was for many Soviet children. He managed to engage Klara in the English version of Krabat. Now I get to read it in the original.

In the USSR, works of international literature and film that we were allowed to know about were often random. Why Krabat made the cut and was let through by Soviet censors while other books and cartoons weren’t is unknown.