Ring

Elisabeth Horem

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• A brokenhearted man leaves behind his familiar Europe to find himself in a desert land equal parts dull and dreamlike, torn between his desire to lose... Lees meer

Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry

• Hardcover | Engels | Swiss Literature
• Featuring the work of some of the greatest poets of the twentieth century as well as their contemporary counterparts, this anthology is unique in brin... Lees meer

I'm Not Stiller

Max Frisch

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• A renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance. Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "... Lees meer

Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• Featuring the work of some of the greatest poets of the twentieth century as well as their contemporary counterparts, this anthology is unique in brin... Lees meer

The Whole of Life

Jurg Laederach

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• ""I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.""--J?rg Laederach. With tongue res... Lees meer

Man in the Holocene

Max Frisch

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs a powerful vision of our place in the world by combining the banality of an aging man's lonel... Lees meer

My Year of Love

Paul Nizon

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• A riot of confession, complaint, and sensual detail, this novel charts the first year alone of a man who has abandoned his wife, life, family, and hom... Lees meer

Zundel's Exit

Markus Werner

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Z?ndel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-... Lees meer

Isle of the Dead

Gerhard Meier

• Hardcover | Engels | Swiss Literature
• A cornerstone of Swiss modernism, at last available in English translation from one of the great German translators of our time. Lees meer

Behind the Station

Arno Camenisch

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• In the second book of Arno Camenisch's Alp trilogy, "Behind the Station," is told through the eyes of two young brothers growing up in a small, seclud... Lees meer

The Alp

Arno Camenisch

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• The first novel in Arno Camenisch's celebrated "alpine" trilogy is set during a single summer. The four main (unnamed) characters are a dairyman, his ... Lees meer

Shadow of Memory

Bernard Comment

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale... Lees meer

Old Man and the Bench

Urs Allemann

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stori... Lees meer

Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta

Aglaja Veteranyi

• Hardcover | Engels | Swiss Literature
• A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes cons... Lees meer

Volatile Texts

Zsuzsanna Gahse

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book's secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a pl... Lees meer

Cold Shoulder

Markus Werner

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple. During a week in a very hot s... Lees meer

Tynset

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• Tynset takes place during a sleepless night, but as the work unfolds it becomes apparent that the circumstances of the immediate present serve merely ... Lees meer

Last Last Orders

Arno Camenisch

• Paperback | Engels | Swiss Literature
• Last Last Orders?is the third part of Arno Camenicsh's award-winning trilogy set in the Swiss Alps. It is the final evening in the Helvetia bar, and t... Lees meer