Unger üs

A family novel, and even more so: a social novel. And that in spoken word? Absolutely. Guy Krneta takes the risk by providing us with snapshots from the history of a Swiss family and, along with it, from the past fifty years of Switzerland. Like in a photo album, there are smaller and larger jumps between the individual snapshots. The suspense grows: Where is Uncle Sämi? And then the resolution: Ah, there he is again, or: I know this Vivienne too. But we don't stay "among us." And this is not only because the first-person narrator travels to Peru to find the child he claims to have fathered. "Among us" says the grandfather when he still believes he can unite the family. And "among us" says Uncle Sämi when he is once again fibbing and wants to avoid being exposed. "Among us" offers a deceptive facade.