Winner of the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, 2014

Alma lives a comfortable life in Buenos Aires with her parents and spends her weekends at a house on an island in the Delta. There she meets her neighbours, Carmen and Marito, who live with their grandmother, Doña Ángela, in a hut beside a stream.

Adventures along the Delta, the awakening of love and the end of innocence binds them closely together, beyond social and economic differences.

A novel that accompanies a young girl in her transition to adulthood: the disagreement with her family, the search for her own identity, the ominous reality to which she awakens one day, and from which there is no return.

A story of impossible loves and dreams that get lost in the murky waters of the river.

A special book that makes you feel very compassionate, which should be enough reason to dig deeper in the recent history of Argentina. Maria Frisé, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

It drags you like the Paraná river. Maren Keller, Spiegel

In this masterpiece, Coming of age, Inés Garland lets the main character do the talking hersel. Jochen Weber, Süddeutsche Zeitung

She won’t be able to untie herself from her destiny (…). Wie ein unsichtbares Band by Inés Garland has moved me more than any other love story that I have read this summer. Revista Brigitte, Germany

A juvenile and very demanding book, written in a very delicate manner. Magali Heissler, Titelblog

Garland portrays adolescence with gentle harshness, a mixture of nostalgia, lucidity, and pain that only someone with enormous narrative sensitivity can sustain without falling into stereotypes. El Diario de Tandil

Prizes and honors awarded

• Winner of Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2014 (The most important children’s award in Germany).
• Wie ein unsichtbares Band (Piedra, papel o tijera) gets the LUCHS Award in August 2013.
• The Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliterature (German Academy for children and juvenile literature) has considered Wie ein unsichtbares Band (Piedra, papel o tijera) as the book of the month in September 2013.
• The Austrian Institute for Children’s Literature chose Rock, Paper, Scissors as the best novel of the month June 2013.

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