- Street children, Detectives, Detective and mystery stories, Brothers
Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Cornelia Funke
- First published
- April 9, 2003
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- C. Dressler, the chicken house, Destino Infantil & Juvenil
- Editions
- 49
- Language
- French, Spanish, baq, Polish
- ISBN
- 9789507320415
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“It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo.”
deutsche Schriftstellerin, Kinderbuchautorin, Jugendbuchautorin, Illustratorin, Filmproduzentin Cornelia Maria Funke is a German author of children's fiction. Often referred to as the "German J. K. Rowling", Funke was chosen by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in their 2005 list. **Source**: [Cornelia Funke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Funke) on Wikipedia
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