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Zora del Buono, Hinter Büschen, an eine Hauswand gelehnt: Vita ist being questioned by the police. What does she know about Zev? the police are looking for him. Swiss author Zora del Buono tells the story of a middle-aged college professor and her love affair with a student against the backdrop of the Snowden revelations in this short, exciting novel. In this tightly constructed novella, del Buono ensures that the reader is gripped throughout by interweaving the developping story of Vita's summer at the college with her journey after she has been forced to leave the United States. The main story, told from Vita's perspective, is interrupted by press cuttings from the summer of 2013. We see the NSA scandal unravel as Zev's youthful idealism collides with Vita's more distant attitude. The increasing paranoia of being observed by American intelligence agencies is tangible. Del Buono tells her story in short, vivid epidsodes, and her narrator is an astute observer of college life and those around her. She is also unflinching and unapologetic in her account of what it is like to be middle-aged woman with a younger lover. «Behind Bushes, Leaning Against the Wall» is a refreshing antdote to love stories and crime thrillers alike. (Recommended by New Books in German, 40/2016)
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Gaston Cherpillod, Le Chêne brûlé: «Théoda», published in 1944, was the first novel of S. Corinna Bille (1912-1979). The daughter of the painter Edmond Bille had been living for a year with her future husband, Maurice Chappaz, following the break-up of her first marriage. In 1939, she had published «Printemps», a collection of poetry. «Théoda» is a sudden leap, both in style and subject matter, into the universe of this author from the Valais region of Switzerland. The novel makes use of short, vibrant phrases to describe the archaic lifestyle of farmers in the canton of Valais. Following the rhythm of the seasons and catholic festivals, they travel from one village to the next, journeying continually between Pragnin in the valley and the high-altitude Terroua. The Romyr family’s two eldest sons each stray from the well-trodden path in their own way. Barnabé marries a «foreigner», the lovely and proud Théoda, who comes from a distant village. Léonard joins the foreign legion and leaves for Algeria then Indochina. Watched by the rural community, the love-affair of an illegitimate couple emerges. The lovers Théoda and Rémi murder Barnabé and are executed in the canton’s capital. The narrative, based on historical facts, is told by Marceline, one of Barnabé’s younger sisters and by Léonard, who was only seven at the time of the fateful marriage. Corinna Bille uses the innocent and observant eyes of the child and the perspective of the young girl on her fascinating and disturbing sister-in-law to create two female characters of rare substance. (Ruth Gantert, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)
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Martin Suter, Business Class: In his Business Class column, Martin Suter has invented a new genre. The sharpness of his satirical take on the world of management reveals the former creative director's insider knowledge of the ‘business class’. He knows how men in middle and senior management promote themselves and those around them. Although there is a lot of talk of human resources management and human relations in the stories, they are primarily concerned with something much more intimate: «Self Design» – in other words narcissism. How much time and effort do managers expend on networking, keeping up with trends, getting in with the right circles and choosing an appropriate tie? Above all, they strive desperately, and in vain, to be seen in the right light by their superiors as well as by their subordinates and not to get caught in the no man's land between good humour and respect. They want to be loved, even if it means lying to themselves. Vanity and fear are therefore the engines that keep business moving. «Business Class» is bursting with wit and acuity. The short columns play on clichés and clever punchlines and retain some of those rough edges that have long been polished out of Martin Suter's best-selling novels. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
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