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A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the
flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the
two sisters who are the heroines of Invitation to the Bold of
Heart, the debut novel by Swiss writers Dorothee Elmiger, are the
last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is
nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled by devastation. But
the sisters won't accept this state of affairs--they set out on an
expedition, determined to piece together the fragments of their
family history. Only by learning their own story can they look to
the future with hope. When they rediscover a long-forgotten river,
Margaret and Fritzi can sense a new life ahead. Invitation to the
Bold of Heart is a startling dystopian tale of hope and exploration
and a testament to the timeless need of youth to rebel against
authority. Praise for the German Edition "The reader, too, gets to
be at the mercy of this text--I myself turned into an echo chamber
when I read it."-- Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, author of My Secret
Is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages
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Shift Sleepers (Hardcover)
Dorothee Elmiger; Translated by Megan Ewing
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Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers,
smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists,
musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians,
students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all
representatives of our time, and they have conversations about
origins and justice; body and state; import and export; homeland
and migration. They talk together about happiness, music, and
death. In Shift Sleepers, Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has
produced a novel that sheds light on the controversial issues of
our time, finding a new language for this conversation previously
unheard in contemporary German literature.
A novel by a Swiss writer that features figures from all over
Europe from different walks of life coming together in secret to
talk through their experiences, hopes, and dreams. Somewhere deep
in the European forest, they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers,
refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians,
actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students,
and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives
of our time, and they have conversations about origins and justice;
body and state; import and export; homeland and migration. They
talk together about happiness, music, and death. In Shift Sleepers,
Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has produced a novel that sheds light
on the controversial issues of our time, finding a new language for
this conversation previously unheard in contemporary German
literature.
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