Open and free to all literature friends we discuss the novel Weit über das Land by Peter Stamm. Books are available to buy from the library beforehand.
Thomas is an employee in a world of prevailing routine. He has two children, a wife and a house in a small Swiss town. It is a life that could not be more average. But one day, for inexplicable reasons, the family man does not return from work. At first, his wife Astrid thinks there must be some mistake. She calms down the children, gives herself answers, and juggles with flimsy explanations. But slowly it becomes clear that Thomas has run away.
Peter Stamm is a master of quiet drama. He traces his protagonists’ failure in calm language that uses delicate observations to reflect dryly on the seriousness of everyday life.
Peter Stamm is the author of the novels
Seven Years,
On a Day Like This, and
Unformed Landscape, and the short-story collections
We’re Flying and In Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Switzerland.
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