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Eva Maria Leuenberger, kyung: See also: (german)
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Melinda Nadj Abonji, Schildkrötensoldat: Melinda Nadj Abonji’s striking new novel combines lyrical prose with absorbing storytelling: another triumph for this award-winning author. After an accident leaves Zoli with learning difficulties and epilepsy, he is unable to continue his apprenticeship as a baker, so his parents enlist the ‘useless’ young man in the army to fight in the Yugoslavian civil war in 1991. This alternative coming-of-age novel gives insight into young Zoli’s peculiar, yet witty and poetic way of thinking. The reader observes Zoli’s struggle to fit in through his own eyes and those of his cousin Anna, who also struggles with mental health problems and understands Zoli better than his immediate family. After Zoli’s death Anna leaves her teaching job in Zurich on a whim to visit her old home. On the journey, she reminisces about Zoli and their childhood together, and tries to find answers about how and why he died. Through the voice of Anna, as she mourns the death of Zoli, Tortoise Soldier acquires an elegiac feel, celebrating Zoli’s approach to life and his character. Despite its brevity, «Tortoise Soldier» demands to be read slowly so that the reader can cherish the word-play and love of language conveyed by the author. This is an extraordinary book distinguished by Nadj Abonji’s unique, expressive prose which insightfully conveys her protagonist’s particular way of perceiving and interacting with the world. «Tortoise Soldier» captures a whole life with poignant brevity. (Recommended by New Books in German, 43/2018)
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Hansjörg Schneider, Hunkeler und der Fall Livius: Inspector Hunkeler is congenial with Glauser’s Inspector Studer. Hunkeler, too, is terribly stubborn and chooses unique paths in his solving of cases. His empathy and his obsession with stories dictate the direction of his investigations. Victims and perpetrators sometimes turn out to be very similar. In the Livius Case, the sixth story in the Hunkeler series, the author gives his hero a lot of liberties – and time to take in the snowy landscape between Basel and the Alsace. On New Year’s Eve a body is found in a garden plot on the Swiss-French border. Nobody really knew that person. Therefore, only gradually fragments of a dark past of war come to light, leading to Alsace, Emmenthal and East Prussia. Hunkeler leaves the clearing of details to his colleagues and intuitively follows other traces as well as gloomy thoughts. Every now and then his patience snaps when he has to listen to the dull conversations of the people inside the garden plots. Usually, though, Hunkeler meets his counterparts with due respect which brings forth unexpected information. The author builds up tension without the plot ever weighing down the atmospherically dense narration. Schneider, just like his protagonist Hunkeler, always keeps calm. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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Valerie Hugentobler (Hg.): Wohnen und Nachbarschaft im Alter. Age Report V. Seismo Verlag.
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Valérie Hugentobler (dir.): Habiter, vieillir et voisiner. Editons Seismo.
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