Books from Switzerland
51 popular swiss books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Switzerland.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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death in persia by annemarie schwarzenbach EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations f... continue
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Der Besuch der alten Dame : eine tragische Komödie by Friedrich Dürrenmatt DE
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A rich woman agrees to share her wealth the people in her poor village in return for the life of the man who ruined her reputation when she was young.
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Die Panne by Friedrich Dürrenmatt DE
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Weil sein Auto eine Panne hat, gerät Alfredo Traps in eine Villa, in der vier ältere Herren ein Gerichtsspiel abhalten, das ihnen, ehemaligen Richtern, Staatsanwälten und Verteidigern – zum Zeitvertreib dient. Traps übernimmt die Rolle des Angeklagten, und man versichert ihm, eine Schuld werde sich schon finden lassen.
15.
El angel de la guarda by Fleur Jaeggy ES
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
In a vague place in England, two girls, as output of a photograph by Lewis Carroll, chat with their guardian such vital topics as death, emptiness, power, sources ... Arrogant, harsh and melancholy, the two appear to assume that talking about those great things is legitimate, and with no shame, they believe is a good thing at their age.
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Heidi by Johanna Spyri EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Heidi : (fetiţa munţilor) by Johanna Spyri RO
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Het boek van de Baltimores by Joël Dicker NL
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Tot de dag van het Drama waren er twee families Goldman: de Goldmans-uit-Baltimore en de Goldmans-uit-Montclair. De Goldmans-uit-Montclair, waarvan Marcus Goldman deel uitmaakt, zijn een middenklassengezin dat in een klein huis in Montclair woont. De Goldmans-uit-Baltimore vormen een welvarend gezin dat in een luxe villa in een rijke buitenwijk van Baltimore woont. Voor hen koestert Marcus een grenzeloze bewondering.
Acht jaar na het Drama besluit Marcus de geschiedenis van zijn familie te vertellen en blikt hij terug op de lotgevallen van de Goldmans-uit-Baltimore, op zijn dierbare neven Hil... continue
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Het lot van de familie Meijer by Charles Lewinsky NL
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
De lotgevallen van een joodse familie in Zwitserland in de jaren 1871-1945.
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Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Der rationalitätsgläubige Techniker Faber muß kurz vor seinem Tod erfahren, daß seine Weltorientierung nicht ausreicht, um menschliche Schuld und schicksalshaftem Zufall zu entgehen.