Neun Erzählungen

Besides the "Fänger im Roggen" and the four great stories about the Glass family, Salinger has published only one volume of short stories: a highlight of 20th century literature.
Outsiders and the disturbed, loners and members of the glass family familiar from "Franny and Zooey" populate these stories. Especially children: precocious and precocious, wise and nosy and a prodigy. Salinger describes her otherness, her obstinacy, her methods in dealing with adults, her painful and comical undertakings with wit, melancholy and great tenderness.