Title: We, the children of the Berlin Zoo
Author: Christiane Vera Felscherinow
Original title: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Translator: Roberta Tatafiore
Publisher: BUR Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli
Genre: Drama
He has been termed "a document-truth about drug use among young people," so, but we can not believe that it is just that. In fact this is the life of a teenager named Christian who gradually enters the tunnel of drugs and prostitution and all this is told by journalists of the weekly "Stern" and then published in a book. What we read is the life of this girl that begins and ends at 12 years, so to speak, 15. Of course "is a classic, a testament that invites us to reflect." Christiane is a very lively girl who lives with his family, violent father and unemployed, employed mother and a younger sister, in a small town near Hamburg. To improve their economic condition, they moved to Berlin in the district Gropiusstadt dormitory. The family's economic situation does not improve, however, that psychological Christiane get worse because of the separation of parents. The girl is so easy a victim of drugs. After close friendship with his classmate Kessi, begins to attend particular places where drug users can be easily found. Christiane took hashish at the age of 12 years. He begins to attend Kessi with the Sound, the most modern discotheque in Europe but in reality it is primarily a center of drug dealing, and to take more and heavier substances. Detlef here knows that you love. To satisfy his need for heroin is forced to prostitute themselves to the underground station Bahnhof Zoo Christiane tries several times to detoxify, even with Detlef, but all his attempts are in vain ...
a past reality, but present. It would seem a contradiction, but it is not. Christiane had, after all (even the desperate attempt to commit suicide), the strength to carry on, to react, not to give up, but those who today have the same force? This book highlights not only the consequences but also the causes that lead to the drug. Why a girl of 11/12 years is beginning to take drugs? Christiane has a violent father who beats her for every little thing, a mother absent for work that is not able to defend her children from the violence of her husband, lives in a neighborhood where "you hear everywhere the stench of piss and shit" , in a state Economic not very happy, then what to do, how to react, how can we forget all this, how to escape from the violence of a father and a mother is blinded by the indifference of his pride? Here's the story of this girl became a symbol of so many others around us but we do not know fully the truth, perhaps because we do not know or see, much more simply, We do not want
Carmen Monaco
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