In Matto's Realm

Friedrich Glauser

ISBN 10: 1904738060 / ISBN 13: 9781904738060

Edité par Bitter Lemon Press London, 2005

A propos de cet article

First edition thus (preceded by the 1936 Swiss serialized edition among others) of a near fine softcover with no jacket as issued. The 2nd novel in the Sergeant Jakob Studer mystery series, a police officer operating in 1930s Bern Switzerland. Finalist for the 2005 Dagger Award. Translated from the German by Mike Mitchell.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: In Matto's Realm
• Éditeur: Bitter Lemon Press London
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1904738060
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781904738060
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

"Despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened with strong doses of bittersweet irony. The idiosyncratic investigation and its laconic detective haven't aged one iota."--Guardian

A child-murderer escapes from a Swiss insane asylum. The stakes get higher when Detective Sergeant Studer discovers the director's body, neck broken, in the boiler room of the madhouse. The intuitive Studer is drawn into the workings of an institution that darkly mirrors the world outside. Even he cannot escape the pull of the no man's land between reason and madness where Matto, the spirit of insanity, reigns.

Addicted to morphine, Friedrich Glauser spent much of his life in psychiatric wards and prison. He began writing mystery novels while an asylum inmate in 1935.

À propos de l?auteur

Mike Mitchell is a well-known translator of German works and the winner of a number of literary prizes. He has translated the other Studer novels as well. Mike Mitchell has translated some thirty books and won the Schlegel-Tieck German translation prize.