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Title: Ausländer
Review: While I loved the story this book told, I found the many errors in the German very distracting (the German word is "Ausländer," not "Auslander.") I grew up in Austin, and knew there were Germans in Texas, although I am not one of them. It was apparent that the author has never seen German written, and evidently the publishing company did not see fit to hire an editor who had. At first I thought that she was trying to represent possible linguistic shifts in Texas German, but since one of the main characters was a student of German Language and Literature, it was not believable for her to be unable to spell in German, and this was not the only problem she displayed with the German language.I did love the character development, and I hope Powell continues to write; she is obviously quite talented. She had good insights into the complexity of the female role in society.
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