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Steiners Geschichte Göttfert, Constantin
The Long Shadows of the Past Constantin Göttfert is a sensitive storyteller who gives his characters the room they need to unload their weighty stories. The subject of “Steiners ...
Wandlungen des Prinzen Genji Federmair, Leopold
“Took the train to Miyajimaguchi, about an hour on the Sanyo line, in one of the carriages that have been in use for five or six decades.” We are in Japan, along with a protagonist who ...
zwischen Pfeifer, Judith Nika
Tales from an indecisive life The title of poet Judith Nika Pfeifer’s first prose collection – zwischen (between) – is unpretentious, even restrained. It calls to mind an intermediate ...
Unterwegs nach Ochotsk Frey, Eleonore
Swiss Literature Prize 2015 ::: COMING SOON ::::::::::: (Jury selection of the Swiss Literature Prize)
Le Milieu de l’horizon Buti, Roland (The Middle of the Horizon)
Swiss Literature Prizes 2014 With a power reminiscent of some of Faulkner’s works, in his novel «Le Milieu de l’horizon» Roland Buti takes us to the ...
La Claire Fontaine Bosc, David (The Clear Fountain)
Swiss Literature Prizes 2014 David Bosc’s «La Claire Fontaine» is a novel about a painter, Gustave Courbet. It is also a book about Lake Léman captured ...
J’aime ce qui vacille Pagnard, Rose-Marie (I Like that which Falters)
Swiss literature prizes 2014 Sigui and Ilmar have lost their daughter, a drug addict. Two years later, Sigui is casting around in search of a truth, or an ...
Reise an den Rand des Universums Widmer, Urs (Journey to The End of the Universe)
Schweizer Literaturpreise 2014 «No author in his right mind writes an autobiography». Against the fear that this would be the end of one’s material it ...
Koala Bärfuss, Lukas
What reasons are there for committing suicide? And what reasons for deciding to live? Nothing about the story told in Lukas Bärfuss’s new novel seems normal. For the story culminates in an ...
Der Allesforscher Steinfest, Heinrich
The title of Heinrich Steinfest’s new novel could be translated as ‘The Everything Researcher.’ But what does that mean exactly - someone who researches everything that has ever existed, or ...
Vom Gebrauch der Wünsche Mischkulnig, Lydia
This book starts off explosively. The setting is an estate in Sievering, an outer district of Vienna. This is “the erstwhile property of a displaced family,” where young Leon and his mother go ...
Kindheitswald Laznia, Elke
“Writing holds my hand” How does the past smell? Like the green moss of the titular “childhood forest”? Or the gray dust of the childhood home, casting inward shadows? The important ...
Das Fell der Tante Meri Bauer, Theodora
At the beginning, everything is up in the air. Theodora Bauer’s cryptically titled novel, “Das Fell der Tante Meri” (“Aunt Meri’s Fur”), narrates the story of three characters - ...
Die Geschichte von Wilhelm Tell Schubiger, Jürg (The Story of William Tell)
Why William Tell today, the story of the upright peasant, who became a national hero against his will? Jürg Schubiger has dusted off the Swiss national myth and shows how history can come alive ...
Le plus grand footballeur de tous les temps Zullo, Germano
....COMING ..... (Denise von Stockar) Source: SIKJM
Requiem Roud, Gustave
There is nothing dramatic about the life and work of Gustave Roud (1897-1978): a major figure in introspective poetry revered by his contemporaries, he lived in a certain degree of poverty on the ...
Das Ei Raeber, Kuno (The Egg)
The first-person narrator is sitting in a café in Rome just opposite the Lateran and ponders over a white sheet of paper. He is thinking about the shameful act of Laszlo Toth. In 1972 Toth had ...
Alle Jahre wieder saust der Presslufthammer nieder Müller, Jörg (Every Year the Jackhammer We Hear, or: Modified Landscapes)
«When I worked on these pictures over 35 years ago, it was not my intention to indoctrinate children. Much rather, I wanted to make visible for their parents – without judgment – what our ...
Catscha sil Capricornen Cavrein Tuor, Leo (Hunting Ibex in the Cavrein)
«If you want know everything, every last detail, about a valley, everything about a mountain and its slopes, its rocks, its screes, outcrops and peaks, its ravines, chasms and crannies, then you ...
Max Zschokke, Matthias
«Some things are not allowed to be thought», writes Matthias Zschokke in «Max», his debut novel. He continues: «Otherwise the whole world falls apart, and we who have thought these things, we ...
Feu les oiseaux Perrier, Anne (Fire Birds)
«Feu les oiseaux», which was published in 1975, shines out especially in the work of major French-Swiss poet Anne Perrier, in which the quest for an ever greater asceticism is certainly one of ...
Uno per uno Soldini, Tomaso (One by one)
They grew up in Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s, in a country that was flourishing; but even so, the characters in One by One live a life on the edge of society, a life full of unanswered ...
Le Noir du ciel Zoss, Mary-Laure (The Darkness of the Sky)
The poetry of Mary-Laure Zoss, who published this first darkly intense work at the age of 52, clearly belongs to the tradition of Swiss-French poets Gustave Roud and Philippe Jaccottet, and is ...
Père et passe Meizoz, Jérôme (Father passing)
Driving peacefully through the countryside, it suddenly dawns on Jérôme Meizoz that his father is mortal. From that moment on, everything changes and he starts taking notes, interweaving ...
