The Parent Trap (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781805331704)

Vendor: Erich K?stner
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Format: Paperback
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The Parent Trap

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The Parent Trap

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Format: Paperback
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The book behind the world-famous film -- in a new translation by Anthea Bell

Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the same.

But they are sure that they have never set eyes on each other in their lives.

When the two girls meet at a summer camp and discover the secret behind their similarity, they decide to switch places. Everyone is fooled (apart from the dog) and, despite a few mistakes and misadventures, everything goes to plan for Luise as Lottie and Lottie as Luise - until their father meets a young, beautiful woman and things start to unravel...

Funny, moving, affectionate and improbable, The Parent Trap has twice been adapted for film - but the book remains one of the great classics of German children's literature.

Author: Erich K?stner
ISBN-10: 1805331701
ISBN-13: 9781805331704
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Erich K?stner
By Erich K?stner
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Erich K?stner, writer, poet and journalist, was born in Dresden in 1899. His first children's book, Emil and the Detectives, was published in 1929 and has since sold millions of copies around the world and been translated into around 60 languages. After the Nazis took power in Germany, K?stner's books were burnt and he was excluded from the writers' guild. He won many awards, including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960. He died in 1974.

Anthea Bell is an acclaimed translator of German and French literature, and is known for her translations of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, for which she won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2002, as well as the much-loved Asterix books. She has worked on numerous Stefan Zweig books for Pushkin Press, including Beware of Pity, and Burning Secret, for which she won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2010.

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