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An Answer from the Silence - A Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch; Mike Mitchell (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world? " This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of ...Show more
Collected Poems by Rainer Brambach; Esther Kinsky (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left school at the age of fourteen to become a manual labore ...Show more
In the Congo by Urs Widmer; Donal McLaughlin (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does something surprising--they finally begin to talk. Kuno had always regarded his father as a boring man without a history or a destiny, until they are thrust together and he learns ...Show more
Mr Adamson by Urs Widmer; Donal McLaughlin (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, the day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that he is recording the story of his adventures with Mr. Adamson. In the course of this compelling ...Show more
Selected Essays: Durrenmatt by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
Friedrich D rrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his essays on literary forms as well as those on philo ...Show more
Sketchbook, 1966-1971 by Max Frisch; Simon Pare (Translator)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
A fresh translation of the second volume of Max Frisch's diaries. By the time Swiss author Max Frisch published the second volume of his diaries or sketchbooks, he had achieved international recognition as a writer and dramatist. In this volume, he develops his version of the literary diary as a mosaic ...Show more
Stigmata of Bliss - Three Novellas by Klaus Merz; Tess Lewis (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Swiss List Ser.
Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentences, Merz brings depth and resonance to spare narratives with lyrical prose and striking images. Stigmata of Bliss brings together three of Merz's critically a ...Show more
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