You are cordially invited to attend a bi-lingual reading with Franz
Hohler:
Mon 1 Oct 7.30pm
Franz Hohler: The Stone Flood
"Franz Hohler is a brilliant writer in the great tradition of Swiss
literature." (Olivier Berger)
Hohler will be reading in German and English from his novel Die
Steinflut (The Stone Flood, transl. by John Brownjohn), recently
published by The Harvill Press. This moving story of a natural
catastrophe, which is based on an historical tragedy, is told from the
viewpoint of a child whose innocence of the world is combined with an
acute sense of the danger present beneath the beauty of nature.
Katharina is sent out of the valley, up the mountain to be with her
grandmother while her mother gives birth to a sixth child. The girl is
worried. In her parents' inn all the talk has been of the landslides,
and it has not stopped raining for days. Katharina is filled with an
increasing and inexplicable sense of doom.
Franz Hohler was born in Biel, Switzerland. He is both a writer and a
cabaret artist. He has toured the world with his one-man show
'Pizzicato'. He has also written plays and fiction for children.
This event is organised by the Cultural Department of the Swiss Embassy
London in association with the Goethe-Institut London and The Harvill
Press.
Free admission.
Venue: Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London
SW7 2PH, tel 020 7596 4000
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