Name: Blutbuch
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ISBN: 9783832182083

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Zurich

Lausanne

Wohlen

Basel

Kriens

Winterthur

Bern

Dietikon

St. Gallen

Geneva

DuMont

The narrative figure identifies neither as a man nor as a woman. Growing up in a shabby Swiss suburb, they now live in Zurich, having escaped the rigid structures of their upbringing and feeling comfortable in their non-binary body and sexuality. However, when their grandmother falls ill with dementia, the narrator begins to confront the past: Why are there only fragmented memories of their own childhood? Why can the grandmother hardly distinguish herself from her deceased sister? And what happened to the great-aunt who disappeared as a young woman? The narrator resists the culture of silence of the mothers and investigates the non-traditional female bloodline. This novel is a stylistically and formally unique act of liberation from the things we carry unexamined: genders, traumas, class affiliations. Kim de l’Horizon embarks on a quest for other forms of knowledge and transmission, storytelling, and self-formation, undermining the linear forms of family narratives and approaching a fluid and flowing style of writing that does not impose but rather opens up.

Actual product image Blutbuch (German, Hardcover, Kim de l'Horizon)

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5 stories in the running for the Swiss Book Prize

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