Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt

Swiss Book Prize 2018. To relive one's own life once more. Should one wish for that? Christoph meets the much younger Lena in Stockholm. He tells her that he loved a woman twenty years ago who was similar to her, indeed, who was just like her. He knows the life she is leading and understands what lies ahead for her. Thus begins an unprecedentedly truthful game of the past with the present, from which no one will emerge unscathed. Can we escape our fate, or must we resign ourselves to the gentle indifference of the world? Peter Stamm, the great storyteller of existential human experience, narrates a different story of the inexplicable closeness that separates one from who they once were, all within a small space. "If Albert Camus were alive today, he might write books like Peter Stamm...".