Our book club, which is open and free to all literature friends, will discuss the novel 'Elefant' by Martin Suter. Books are available to buy from the library beforehand.
An edge-of-the-seat thriller and a great novel about the world we live in, about people on the margins of society and about those who speculate on big money.
A creature that enchants people: a small pink elephant that glows in the dark like an alien. Only one person knows where it comes from: the genetic scientist Roux. He has big plans for this global sensation. Or is it something sacred that must be hidden and protected? That’s what Kaung thinks, a Burmese elephant-whisperer who was present at the animal’s birth. An exploration of borderline territories, in more ways than one.
Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is a writer, columnist and screenplay author. Until 1991 he worked as a creative director in advertising, before deciding to focus exclusively on writing. His novels (most recently Elephant) and his Business Class stories have enjoyed huge international success. Since 2011 gentleman crook Allmen has been solving cases in his own crime series, of which Allmen and the Koi is the sixth installment. Martin Suter and his family live in Zurich.
Source: Diogenes Verlag
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