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Luis Murschetz

Hamster's Journey

Published by Diogenes as Der Hamster Radel

Original Title: Der Hamster Radel

The enchanting classic children’s book about a clever hamster who rebels and wheels himself out into the big wide world.

Our hero Radel has to attract customers in his hamster wheel, so as to lead a miserable life – until he and the town’s other hamsters manage to break out, leave their wooden prisons behind, and find delightful accommodation in a wheat field – very close to the field where Grabowski the mole lives.

Children's Books
32 pages
22 × 27.5 cm
ab 3 Jahren
1975

978-3-257-00570-7

Luis

Murschetz

Luis Murschetz (1936 – 2026) was born in Velenje. After training at the school of arts and crafts in Graz, he spent several years in Rotterdam and London. In 1962 he moved to Munich, where he lived and worked thereafter. He worked as caricaturist and illustrator, amongst others for the newspapers Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Luis Murschetz was awarded the ›Schwabinger Art Award‹, the ›Olaf-Gulbransson-Award‹ and the ›Austrian Honorary Cross for Sciences and Art, 1st Class‹.

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Photo of Luis Murschetz, © Klaus Kallabis

Quotes

Die Zeit, Hamburg

»Murschetz tells the story of his small hero with the black button eyes, in such touching and magical words and pictures that every child wishes for a happy ending behind the turnip field.«