Swiss Literatures
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Daskind Mehr, Mariella (Thechild)
Thechild does not have a name nor does it have any rights. It lives with its foster parents. It is regularly punished by its foster father, sexually abused by their lodger, and reprimandes by the ...
Bergsteigen im Flachland Mannhart, Urs (Mountaineering in the Lowlands)
Thomas Steinhövel is a freelance reporter, who travels much of the time. His trips take him to Milan and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; to northern Norway and southern Spain; to Kosovo, Serbia ...
Wunderwelt Loetscher, Hugo (Wonderworld)
Hugo Loetscher once called himself a «Sweetwater Portuguese». In Lisbon he discovered the very edge of Europe, from here he set sail for the New World. He documented his encounters in Cearà, ...
Panischer Frühling Leutenegger, Gertrud (Panic Spring)
Ejafjallajökull: the name of the Icelandic volcano that erupted in 2010, had the whole of Europe literally holding its breath and presented airlines with a formidable problem. Even London was ...
Sessualità Lepori, Pierre (Sexuality)
Pierre Lepori's novel has an unusual publishing history. «Sessualità» was launched simultaneously in three languages: Italian, French and German. The author did his own translation from Italian ...
Naw much of a talker Lenz, Pedro (Dr Goalie bin ig)
The goalkeeper is a young man from a village in the Swiss midlands. He is an indefatigable and gifted storyteller, a true rogue, both naive and crafty. His love for telling stories often gets him ...
Nach Hause schwimmen Lappert, Rolf (Swimming home)
«Nach Hause schwimmen» was an impressive comeback for Rolf Lappert in 2008. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Wilbur, who dreams of being Bruce Willis but is ashamed of his own short ...
Si vivre est tel Laederach, Monique (If Life is Such)
Compiled from two separate works (Nos voix seulement dormaient and Si vivre est tel, the latter named after the line of a poem by Saint-John Perse), this collection of poems is the crowning ...
Der beste Tänzer Keller, Christoph (The Best Dancer)
The author Christoph Keller suffers from ‹spinal muscular atrophy› (SMA) in which case the brain gradually loses control over the locomotor system. One loses one’s freedom of movement. In ...
Unger üs Krneta, Guy (Unter uns)
Swiss Literature Prize 2015 ::: COMING SOON ::::::::::: (Jury selection of the Swiss Literature Prize)
Aus dem Leben einer Matratze bester Machart Krohn, Tim (From the Life of a Perfect Mattress)
Immanuel Wassermann is a Jewish dyestuff manufacturer from Berlin. When he meets Gioia, a young, pretty girl from Sicily, in Locarno, they are both lost the moment they set eyes on each other. ...
Vrenelis Gärtli Krohn, Tim
Quatemberkinder live in two worlds. They are humans, and at the same time they frequent ghosts and demons of all kind. Melk is a Quatember child. He is not very skilled in magic though, because he ...
The Living Kramer, Pascale (Les Vivants)
Pascal Kramer's (*1961) second novel opens onto a brutal scene. Two children die during a silly and reckless game under the horrified gaze of their young uncle. Instead of reacting, the family ...
Einer, der nichts merkte Käthi Bhend (Ill.) , Robert Walser (Text), (One Who Noticed Nothing)
The yarn of Robert Walser’s ultra-short stories is spun from everyday life and woven effortlessly together, as if by a child. The tapestries tell of the fragility of life and yet report on real ...
mutig, mutig Kathrin Schärer (Ill.), Lorenz Pauli (Text), (brave, brave)
Before the actual adventure even begins, the four protagonists leap out at us from the cover. Soon they reach the pond and have no idea what to get up to – yet. The frog, finally, has the ...
Als der Mond vom Himmel fiel Jardine, Anja (When the Moon Fell From the Skies)
In a precise and atmospherically dense prose Anja Jardine recounts eleven stories of people who are waiting for happiness to come their way. The preface quotes singer Björk: „possibly maybe ...
Der Herbst, in dem ich Klavier spielen lernte Johansen, Hanna
Swiss Literature Prize 2015 ::: COMING SOON ::::::::::: (Jury selection of the Swiss Literature Prize)
Lena Johansen, Hanna
Lena is waiting for her niece Sophie who is about to come and visit at four o’clock. Until then, there is still some time, waiting, a long time: yearning – for her niece and for the past? ...
Gegengabe Ingold, Felix Philipp (A Gift in Return)
Felix Philipp Ingold is author, translator and literary scholar all in one with a respectable body of work in all of these disciplines. His opulent volume «Gegengabe» (A Gift in Return) ...
Der Kiosk Boesch, Hans (The Kiosk)
With «The Kiosk», writer and transport planner Hans Boesch (1926-2003) presents a superb mirror of the 1970s in the form of a comprehensive, 400-page strong utopian novel, to which we owe one of ...
Tschipo Hohler, Franz
«Tschipo» (1978), «Tschipo and the Penguins» (1985) and «Tschipo in the Stone Age» (1995) are Franz Hohler’s three children’s novels. They share the same main character and also the same ...
Der grosse Kater Hürlimann, Thomas (The Great Tomcat)
Thomas Hürlimann’s «Der grosse Kater» subjects Swiss politics to critical historical analysis in a polyphonic, subtly woven work of prose. It is a piece of political satire, philosophical ...
Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin Helle, Heinz (The Reassuring Sound of Exploding Kerosene)
The pivotal figure in Heinz Helle’s first novel –«The Reassuring Sound of Exploding Kerosene» – is an anonymous ‹ I › – a first-person narrator, who wants to discover, who this ...
The Envoy Hürlimann, Thomas (Der Gesandte)
The Foehn wind is blowing up a storm but Heinrich’s blind father still wants to welcome his son with garlands, lampions and flags when he returns home from a successful mission on 8 May 1945, ...
Flug Hänny, Reto (Flight)
The welcoming chatter of the guests suddenly falls silent. The boy, who was just loudly pretending to be an airplane, watches as his irritated great uncle breaks his funfair propeller forever. A ...
