Esther Kinsky

The Captain and Mimi Catt

With illustrations by Gerda Raidt
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Esther Kinsky
The Captain and Mimi Catt / Der Käptn und die Mimi Kätt
With illustrations by Gerda Raidt
»›Guys, now only solidarity can help us!‹ yelled Mimi Catt, and everyone cheered.«

An enchanting winter’s tale by the award-winning author and translator Esther Kinsky – a story not just for children

A story featuring Mimi Catt, the clever feline who lives next to the Landwehrkanal in Berlin

With numerous songs that can be sung to familiar or newly invented melodies
So cold! And so much snow! Mimi Catt, a snow-white and very clever cat, would prefer nothing more than to stay in her small, cosy basement flat. Even though a nasty mud-brown pug just did his business right in front of Mimi Catt’s window. And on top of it all, a huge ocean liner is stuck in the frozen canal outside the flat! »How is this possible?« Mimi Catt wonders. But once she meets the captain and the sailors aboard this mysterious ship with whom she can sing such glorious...
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So cold! And so much snow! Mimi Catt, a snow-white and very clever cat, would prefer nothing more than to stay in her small, cosy basement flat. Even though a nasty mud-brown pug just did his business right in front of Mimi Catt’s window. And on top of it all, a huge ocean liner is stuck in the frozen canal outside the flat! »How is this possible?« Mimi Catt wonders. But once she meets the captain and the sailors aboard this mysterious ship with whom she can sing such glorious songs all day and all night long, nothing really astonishes her anymore and together with the seafarers she enjoys the most beautiful and craziest winter of her life.
2022, 47 pages
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Esther Kinsky

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Esther Kinsky was born in Engelskirchen in 1956. Her oeuvre, which includes poetry, fiction, essays and translations from the Polish, Russian, and English, has been awarded numerous prestigious awars, including Kleist Prize in 2022. Kinsky’s novel Grove won the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2018 and the Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2018, was shortlisted for the Europese Literatuurprijs 2021, longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021, and the English translation by Caroline Schmidt was nominated for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. An unpublished and anonymously entered extract from her novel Rombo was awarded the newly founded W.-G.-Sebald-Literaturpreis in 2020.
Esther Kinsky was born in Engelskirchen in 1956. Her oeuvre, which includes poetry, fiction, essays and translations from the Polish, Russian, and...
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