Die Wolke

Die Wolke (The Cloud)[1] is a novel by German author Gudrun Pausewang,[2] published in German in 1987.

The story was published after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 when nuclear fallout fell on much of Europe.[3] Sales of the book surged in 2011 in response to the nuclear disaster in Japan.[4]

Plot

The story deals with a Chernobyl-type nuclear disaster happening on German soil.[5] The heroine of the story is a fourteen-year-old girl who flees the contaminating cloud of radiation and experiences the ensuing breakdown of social order.[6][7]

Adaptations

Die Wolke was translated into English by Patricia Crampton and published in 1997 as Fall-Out.[8]

A film adaptation, The Cloud, was made in 2006.[9]

In 2014, a stage adaptation titled Mienai Kumo (Invisible Clouds) was written by Misaki Setoyama.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Pausewang, Gudrun (1987). Die Wolke. Ravensburger Buchverlag. ISBN 978-3473580149.
  2. ↑ "Anti-Nuclear Children's Author 'I Hope the Japanese Will Be Spared'". Der Spiegel Online International. March 18, 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Frank Uekötter (11 April 2014). The Greenest Nation?: A New History of German Environmentalism. MIT Press. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-0-262-02732-8.
  4. ↑ " Opinion: Germany Cripples Itself With Nuclear Angst". Spiegel Online International.
  5. ↑ Axel Goodbody (15 December 2002). The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities. Berghahn Books. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-1-78238-605-6.
  6. ↑ Mary Ann Darby; Miki Pryne (2002). Hearing All the Voices: Multicultural Books for Adolescents. Scarecrow Press. pp. 78–. ISBN 978-0-8108-4058-4.
  7. ↑ "Fall-out: 9". Publishers Weekly.
  8. ↑ "Fall-out". Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ↑ "Review: ‘The Cloud’". Variety.
  10. ↑ "2014: New horizons opened up in Japan’s theater world". Japan Times.


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