Death in Persia

"I've tried to live in Persia in all ways, but I couldn't." No other country exerted such a pull on Annemarie Schwarzenbach as Persia. It's the cipher for her life and writing. Fate has driven her again and again to this "distant and exotic country", also in the mid-thirties, when the present text was written. The records about the "attempt" of a - lesbian - love are diary, story and travelogue at the same time. "Death in Persia" is autobiography and fiction, confesses and conceals much. It is the testimony of an encounter with the foreign, incomprehensible and abysmal.