![]() ![]() To answer these questions, Mike back tracks to the start of the road trip, the beginning of the summer holidays, when neither of the two boys are invited to Tatjana Cosic’s birthday party, who is Mike’s love interest. The first few pages of the novel start off with Mike lying in a hospital bed, being questioned by the police and doctors as to exactly why they took the car and where they were going. However, when Tschick joins Mike’s class the two boys form an unlikely friendship. ![]() Tschick is a Russian immigrant boy from a troubled background who often turns up to school drunk and is the foreign outsider in a German high school. Mike is an outcast that never gets invited to parties and doesn’t really have any friends. ![]() In this popular German novel, we join 14-year-old Mike and his classmate Tschick as they embark on an epic (and very illegal) summer road trip across eastern Germany in a stolen Lada car. Two teenage boys, one stolen car, and a mad plan to drive through eastern Germany in the school holidays – what could go wrong? A story of the journey of forming unconventional friendships and seizing life on the ultimate summer road trip, Wolfgang Herrndorf’s best-selling novel and winner of the German Children’s Literature Award, Why We Took The Car is the summer holiday read to plunge yourself into translated German YA literature. ![]()
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