When asked, she replies, "As far as I remember, I've always been around." She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen-really listen. She is illiterate and cannot count, and she doesn't know how old she is. She came to the ruin, parentless and wearing a long, used coat.
In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. The book won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1974. The full title in German ( Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte) translates to Momo, or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people. It is about the concept of time and how it is used by humans in modern societies. Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey, is a fantasy novel by Michael Ende, published in 1973.
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