The Neverending Story is Michael Ende's best-known book, but Momo, published six years earlier, is …
Review of 'Momo: oder, Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Momo has got to be the best children's story for adults that you'll ever read. As a child, it was a great adventure book that managed to explain some of the complexities of the adult world to me. As an adult, it's the novel to underline just how useless and limiting many of these complexities are.