This collection of short stories of Jutta Mahlke, a contemporary German author, covers themes from travels to lovely spots and murky worlds, distant continents and space, to issues of growing up and finding one's place, education, environmental issues, all of it piece by piece artfully enriched with bits of old tales and even some science fiction. This revised and illustrated 2nd edition of "Seventeen " now shines in two-colored Black & Green print, the ultimate English - German Reader of Short Stories and Kurzgeschichten of the author, an easy/medium reader for those who love both languages.