In a conversation: Wolfgang Herrndorf, FAZ on January 31st 2011 Plot The water was missing, but I had figured out the plot in a couple of minutes. I only could think of something with a car. Sailing down the Elbe with a float seemed ridiculous to sign on a ship as a runaway in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 21-century: jabberwocky. I thought about how I could integrate these three things into a somewhat realistic youth novel. During that process, I realized that all of my favorite books had three things in common: a quick elimination of the grown-up attachment figure, long journey, wide waters. I did this because I wanted to know whether they were really as good as I remembered them, but I also wanted to find out who I was as a twelve-year-old. I’ve reread the books of my childhood in 2004, ‘ Lord of the flies’, ‘ Huckleberry Finn’, ‘ Arthur Gordon Pym’, ‘Pik reist nach Amerika’ and so on. To the question why he wrote a youth novel with Tschick, Wolfgang Herrndorf answered the following in a conversation with FAZ: It was published in over 25 countries and sold over 2 million copies in Germany alone until September 2016. In 2012, it was also awarded with the Hans Fallada Prize. The novel was awarded with the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Children's Literature Award) as well as the Clemens-Brentano-Preis in 2011. It deals with the unconventional friendship between a 14-year-old middle class boy and a Russian late repatriate youngster.
The English edition, translated by Tim Mohr, was published by Scholastic in 2014.
Why We Took the Car ( German: Tschick) is a youth novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf first published in German by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010.
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