The Blue Soda Siphon - Couverture souple

Widmer, Urs; Mclaughlin, Donal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803090472 ISBN 13 : 9781803090474

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

A magnificent example of  Widmer’s characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. 

In the wildly entertaining novel The Blue Soda Siphon, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was back then turns up in the present of the early 1990s, during the Gulf War, where he meets himself as an older man, and meets his adult self’s young daughter. These head-scratching, hilarious time shifts happen when both the adult narrator and his childhood self go to the cinema and see films, the subjects of which echo their own lives.

Translated into English for the first time by Donal McLaughlin, this novel, in which the eponymous blue soda siphon bottle is a recurring symbol, is a magnificent example of Urs Widmer’s characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Urs Widmer is a Swiss novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer. He is the author of many books, including My Mother’s Lover and My Father’s Book, both published by Seagull Books. Donald McLaughlin specializes in translating contemporary Swiss fiction. He has translated more than one hundred writers for the New Swiss Writing anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803090472
• ISBN 13: 9781803090474
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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