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Festland Werner, Markus (Mainland)
Julia wants to leave, it doesn’t matter where she’ll go, she just wants to leave. She just graduated and now faces a big emptyness which her complacent boyfriend is unable to fill. Then her ...
Der Wettermacher Weber, Peter (The Weathermaker)
Take the Toggenburg Valley, Zurich, the lake, and main train station - add a young protagonist with an ear for local dialects and legends who lies through his teeth about everything without ...
La Compagnie capricieuse Wandelère, Frédéric (The Company of Capricious Characters)
Swiss Literature Prize 2012 These short poems are striking, first for their airy lightness, second for the precision of the artist’s strokes, and lastly for their musicality. Grasshoppers ...
Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost von Matt, Peter (The Calf in the path of the Gotthard Mail Coach)
Peter von Matt is a phenomenon: both an academic and an essayist, a writer who masterfully combines precision and readability. When Peter von Matt has something to say, everyone listens. 'Das ...
Schizogorsk Vogt, Walter
::::::: COMING SOON :::::::: Beat Mazenauer Also in: Melancholie. Werke 2. hg. von Doris Halter. Nagel & Kimche, Zürich / Frauenfeld 1991.
Im April Viragh, Christina (In April)
The novel „Im April“ by the Hungarian immigrant Christina Viragh is one of the most extraordinary novels of germanophone Swiss literature. Christina Viragh’s language captures the manifold ...
Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta Veteranyi, Aglaja (Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht)
The mother hangs from her hair in the big top. The father is a clown, acrobat and bandit - and as famous as the president of the United States. The elder sister balances on one leg on the father's ...
Lichter in Menlo Park Urweider, Raphael (Lights in Menlo Park)
Raphael Urweider’s volume of poetry «Lights in Menlo Park» captures the world in its material guise. He finds a commanding and mature voice to write about continents, clouds, nature and all ...
L'Etat des lieux Tâche, Pierre-Alain (The State of Things)
The triptych «l'Etat des lieux» occupies a central place in the work of Pierre-Alain Tâche, which spans a period of more than fifty years. In an inventory of places, landscapes and ...
The Cow Sterchi, Beat (Blösch)
"Some have milking machines, and some have foreigners in the cowshed!" as the locals say in Innerwald. Farmer Knuchel has opted for the foreigner and hired Ambrosio from Spain as a farm ...
Carambole Steiner, Jens
Three old men regularly meet for dinner and a game of Carambole, a game in which one nudges little colourful stones with a bigger white stone, the goal being to put them down the holes in the ...
Zwischen Unorten Steiger, Bruno (Between Non-Places)
59 texts from 15 years – reviews, portraits and reports – offer us an insight into the literary and art critic body of work of an author who regularly appears in public as an essayist and ...
Stauffer an Krüsi antworten. Drei Hörspiele Stauffer, Michael (Stauffer to Krüsi Come in. Three Audio Plays)
The Art Brut artist Hans Krüsi (1920-1995) was a rarity. Michael Stauffer drew his inspiration for three audio plays from his shambolic estate, in which Krüsi rearranges the tumultuous tangle ...
Unformed Landscape Stamm, Peter (Ungefähre Landschaft)
«All the things he had told her. And what had she ever told him? He had never asked about anything in her life, and if she did happen to talk about it, he hadn't paid any attention. So she had ...
Goldfischgedächtnis Schwitter, Monique (Goldfish Memory)
«Vertigo» is the title of one of the stories in Monique Schwitter's collection «Goldfischgedächtnis» (Goldfish Memory). And you might well become dizzy when you read these unusual short ...
Augen zu Schweikert, Ruth (Eyes Closed)
To really appreciate Ruth Schweikert's novel, it needs to be read from beginning to end - and that is no exaggeration. The first sentences unleash a stylistic furioso. Under the ...
Die Stunde der Gaukler Schumacher, Hans (The Hour of the Jester)
Hans Schumacher's novel is a true find. It tells the story of Tatorimi, a jester and impressionist who, finding himself embroiled in the machinery of a totalitarian regime, makes it his personal ...
Johanna im Zug Schärer, Kathrin (Johanna by Train)
We are sitting alongside the artist at her worktable. In front of us lie coloured pencils, brushes, scissors, Max Frisch’s «Biography: A Game» and a nearly empty sheet of paper. A railway ...
Nicht schwindelfrei Schubiger, Jürg (No Head for Heights)
What exactly is going on around him, Paul can’t say, he doesn’t know. He has, though, an undeniable suspicion that something isn’t right: «He was ill, so it was said, or, had been. But it ...
Maidenhair Shishkin, Mikhail
Why have you claimed asylum? The narrator constantly has to ask this question in Russian. He works as an interpreter for the Swiss immigration agency. Day after day he translates the stories of ...
