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Goldfish Memory
Monique Schwitter
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Description for Goldfish Memory
Paperback. A traveler shuts himself up in his hotel room, with no-one but room service to talk to; a teenager stalks her long-lost father; a journalist interviews a great poet with a dark past; a woman pursues a doomed liaison with an anonymous man she meets once a month at the casino; and a bar lady locked in with the regulars at night.. Translator(s): Gramich, Eluned. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
What does it mean to have a connection with someone? Everyday you see tens and hundreds of faces and overhear countless conversations. Everyday you pass people by - on the street. In the office. In the car. In cafes and bars. Down the corridors of department stores and hotel rooms. But what makes one person a stranger, and another a friend, an accomplice, even a lover? A traveler shuts himself up in his hotel room, with no-one but room service to talk to; a teenager stalks her long-lost father; a journalist interviews a great poet with a dark ... Read more
What does it mean to have a connection with someone? Everyday you see tens and hundreds of faces and overhear countless conversations. Everyday you pass people by - on the street. In the office. In the car. In cafes and bars. Down the corridors of department stores and hotel rooms. But what makes one person a stranger, and another a friend, an accomplice, even a lover? A traveler shuts himself up in his hotel room, with no-one but room service to talk to; a teenager stalks her long-lost father; a journalist interviews a great poet with a dark ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409633
SKU
V9781910409633
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-42
About Monique Schwitter
Monique Schwitter was born in 1972 in Zurich and now lives and works in Hamburg. Between 1993 and 1997 she studied acting and directing at the Mozarteum University of Dramatic Arts in Salzburg and went on to perform in Zurich, Frankfurt and Graz. In 2005 she published her first volume of short stories, 'Wenn's schneit beim Krokodil' (When It Snows ... Read more
Reviews for Goldfish Memory
With intelligence and compassion, Schwitter portrays the sorry contradictions and sad inconsistencies of what it is to be human; the shoulds, coulds, woulds, what ifs and might have beens that litter our beautiful, flawed lives. Here is humanity stripped bare. It is in turn both discomfiting and strangely reassuring. The writing is stretched taut by the emotions and multiple layers ... Read more