The Center of the World. Winner of the Jugendbuchpreis Buxtehuder Bulle 1998 and of IBBY Ehrenliste 2000

Seventeen-year-old Phil lives in a remote old villa with his confident mother and twin sister Dianne. Accustomed to being an outsider, he falls hopelessly in love with the distant Nicholas. A poetic and moving young adult novel by an award-winning German author.