Millions (novel)

Million is a youth book by the English author Frank Cottrell Boyce which this published in 2004. It was translated into German by Salah Naoura.

Action

The nine- year-old Damian, first-person narrator of the story, is still suffering from the death of his mother. Since the death of his mother, the boy busy with saints and their deeds, their behavior, he tries to imitate, including Hermitage and mortification. Not only that, he oriented his entire behavior of the deeds, he can also chat with them. His older and more pragmatic brother Anthony, however, is fascinated by the imminent introduction of the euro and always looking for a good investment.

On November 4, 2003 falls from a passing train, a bag with 229 370 pounds sterling directly in front of Damian's feet. Damian, who sees this not a sign from God, inaugurates his brother. This convinced him that they can keep the money quiet as it is anyway provided for combustion. In addition, her father would be forced to pay tax on the money.

As the pound has only 17 days validity, the two now have only 17 days to spend the money, since the euro changeover on 1 December takes place. While they initially paid for their classmates to bring them the food to the table and they ride their bikes to school, they buy following things like cable, walkie -talkie wrist watches and other things that hardly help them make the money get rid of. In addition, Damian gets increasingly a bad conscience about them, do not spend the money for the good deeds, as did the saints.

He buys all the birds a pet store and let them freely, as did St. Francis of Assisi. He invites for 175 pound homeless to eat and donates 6,000 pounds of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. Just bought the sect members which electronic devices such as microwave, DVD recorders and plasma televisions. When he donates 3,000 pounds in school for a charitable organization that drills the well in the desert, both boys fall in Erklärungsnot. Anthony is forced to invent a daring lie after the next. He also learns that the money is from a robbery and believes that the perpetrators in search of their prey are. He therefore believes that everyone is a potential predator in their environment, including Dorothy, the collector of charity that comes up at home with them and with her ​​father befriends.

Finally, both fall under such pressure that they have to dedicate their father. To her surprise, he decides to keep the money. But turns up a shady alleged owners and more and more people come to them and ask for money, Damian is the chaos too much and it burns most of the money. He has a vision of his mother, who tells him that all would be well and he her greatest miracle. About the use of the leftover money can be Father Damian - and not Anthony - determine, so it is used for building fourteen wells in Nigeria.

Comments

The novel is both the everyday corruption by wealth and the spiritual impoverishment. Up to Damian all the characters too happy to let go of their purported ideals in order to fulfill their secret desires commercial. The monks renounce at the first opportunity of their voluntary poverty. Even Dorothy, the employee of the charity Water Aid comes, not to the idea of ​​using the money for their organization, but goes first shopping times. Anthony uses the money to buy friends. Even Damian's father decides to keep the money, overruled his conflicting son Damian and reacts horrified when he learns that he burned the money. His teacher is helpless against him, the classmates think he's a nerd, and his father takes him to a psychologist.

The book is suitable for children over 12 years.

Awards

• 2004: LYNX as the "Best Book of the Year 2004"
• 2004: Carnegie Medal
• 2004: on the list of " best 7 books for young readers "

Filming

2004 Danny Boyle filmed the screenplay of the author Frank Cottrell Boyce as critically acclaimed feature film titled Millions.

• Literary work
• Literature ( English )
• Literature ( 21st century)
• Children 's and Youth Literature