- Jews, Diaries, Fiction, Interpersonal relations
"To anyone who wonders whether it is possible to survive adolescence, this is as much as I can offer of reassurance. So begins Rachel Klein's dark and disturbing first novel. Told through the pages of a sixteen-year-old girl's journal, The Moth Diaries is an unsettling and provocative portrait of obsession and fear.".
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Grave, intimate, contemplative and character-led.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Rachel Klein
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Gardners Books, Faber and Faber, Counterpoint
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780571219704
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