Drop Sadness in Paris: The New European School Novel Trend

Author: (German) Ulrich Hohensee, translated by Qiu Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: At the age of 13, the girl Youyou takes a flight alone to Paris for vacation, but by some stroke of luck, she ends up on the wrong flight. Instead of Paris with the Eiffel Tower, she finds herself in the small town of Paris in Texas, USA. Youyou is now in a dilemma. In her distress, her seatmate Bekenschu and "Coca-Cola Man" Lucas extend a helping hand. They introduce her to first spend her vacation at the Paris Ranch in Texas, and then return to Germany after two weeks. During those two weeks, Youyou gradually forgets the pain of her breakup in Paris, falls in love with the free and easy rural life, and even begins to fall for Lucas! However, the vacation is coming to an end, and she has no money to buy a plane ticket back. At a critical moment, her mother arrives with her younger sister from Germany.