{"id":94100,"date":"2025-05-20T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/events-archive\/efua-traore-children-of-the-quicksands-4\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:19:57","slug":"efua-traore-children-of-the-quicksands-4","status":"publish","type":"events-archive","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/efua-traore-children-of-the-quicksands-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Efua Traor\u00e9: Children of the Quicksands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Text, Theater, performance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After her parents&#8217; separation, 13-year-old Simi, a city girl from Lagos, is sent to spend the summer holidays at her grandmother\u2019s house in the countryside. When Simi stumbles upon a mysterious lake full of quicksand, she begins to uncover her family&#8217;s secrets. What is the truth behind the legend of the missing children\u2014and does her grandmother know more than she is letting on? Inspired by Nigerian mythology, this thrilling adventure novel weaves together three generations of a family split between city and country life. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/><strong>What happens in the workshop?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the novel \u201cChildren of the Quicksands\u201d by Efua Traor\u00e9, we set off together in search of traces of our own family histories.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coordinators Nele Wagener &#038; Lea Wendschuh<br\/>Meet &#038; Greet with Efua Traor\u00e9<br\/>The workshop is conducted in German<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/><strong>Conditions of participation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>max 30 pupils<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>first meeting (one school hour) with the class a few days before the workshop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The students will read a few chapters before the workshop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Day 1 of the workshop takes place at the school<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The teacher agrees to participate with their class in an online survey for the purpose of project evaluation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kl. 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","tags":[],"jct-program-properties":[],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"jct-program-categories":[619],"class_list":["post-94100","events-archive","type-events-archive","status-publish","hentry","jct-ilb-years-2024-en","jct-program-categories-kjl-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Efua Traor\u00e9: Children of the Quicksands &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/efua-traore-children-of-the-quicksands-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Efua Traor\u00e9: Children of the Quicksands &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Text, Theater, performance After her parents&#8217; separation, 13-year-old Simi, a city girl from Lagos, is sent to spend the summer holidays at her grandmother\u2019s house in the countryside. 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