Mister God, This Is Anna

Hello, Mister God, this is Anna, the German title of the book, which was published in 1974 as Mister God, This Is Anna. The unknown author of the bestseller, which is now attributed to the children 's and youth literature, hid behind the pseudonym " Fynn ".

Content

The East End of London in the 1930s, during the Great Depression: the 19- year-old writer Fynn happens to meet a 5 - year-old girl named Anna, that's run away from home because it was probably beaten by someone. Anna Fynn takes with him on, and over the next " about three and a half years," produced a deep friendship. Anna is characterized in that it complicated despite their childish age, can play many theological and philosophical contexts in simple words; she believes firmly in " Mister God." Anna died shortly before her eighth birthday in an accident.

The novel follows a roughly chronological plot. Rather, many are treated by Anna's insights into episodes.

Continuation

In 1987, a sequel titled Anna 's Book. This includes Anna's left behind notes and letters, which were revised by Fynn. 1990 saw the third and final " Anna " book, Anna and the Black Knight. It is by Thomas Fox, and later Anna Fynn's math teacher.

Stage

The " theater in medias res" has the world's only approved by the author stage version of the novel by the theater made ​​it through the publisher to contact Fynn. To date, the author refused strictly from authenticity reasons from to bring the novel to the stage.

Fynn

The author behind the pseudonym " Fynn " said to have been George Hopkins (1919-1999), according to an English website of the Englishman Sydney.

Book editions

  • Mister God, This Is Anna. Collins, London 1974; Ballantine, New York 2000, ISBN 0-345-44155-9 Hello, Mister God, this is Anna. Joke, Bern 1974, ISBN 3-502-19245-6 Paperback edition: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1978; Reprint ibid. 2005, ISBN 3-596-80615-1
  • Anna writes to Mister God. News from Anna about God and the way of the world. Joke, Bern 1987, ISBN 3-502-10246-5 Paperback edition: Heyne, Munich 1990; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-80688-7
  • Anna, Mister God and the Doubting Thomas. As Anna an old skeptic gives a place in heaven. Joke, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-502-10244-9 Paperback edition: Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12451-0
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