[ Bogtip efter Literatur Schweiz ]
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 explanation. Ilmar, a theatre costume designer, wants to tear her away from this futile quest and launches the project of a masked ball to which all of the neighbours from their apartment building will be invited. From that moment, caught between realism, tale and comedy, the novel welcomes in various unexpected characters to whom life has been unkind. With style and imagination, Rose-Marie Pagnard transposes and then transcends a personal grief – and it feels as though all her previous works were leading up to this poignant and shimmering novel.

(Jury selection of the Swiss Literature Prize, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

[ Favoritcitat ] «She has slept deeply and without dreams throughout the whole winter and now she stands up on her paws, eyes swollen and nearly blind before the sunlit façade.»

[ Boginfo ] Pagnard, Rose-Marie: J’aime ce qui vacille. (original language: Francese) I Like that which Falters. Éditions Zoé, Genève, 2013 . ISBN: 978-2-88182-883-6.