On A Day Like This: A Novel
Feb 2010 · Other Press, LLC
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From the Booker International Prize finalist and “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review), a stark, gripping novel about sudden endings, lost loves, and the quiet impulse to drop everything and run.
On a day like any other, a sudden medical prognosis shatters Andreas’s carefully ordered world. Teaching German in the Paris suburbs, he has built a life defined by emotional distance and safe routines. Now that he is confronted with his own mortality, a desperate yearning takes hold: he quits his job, sells his apartment, reduces his life to a single suitcase, and sets out for Switzerland to find the woman he loved half a lifetime ago.
Returning to his childhood hometown and tormented by the question of what might have been if things had happened differently, Andreas searches for second chances among familiar streets, unresolved grief, and the quiet ghosts of his youth.
On a day like any other, a sudden medical prognosis shatters Andreas’s carefully ordered world. Teaching German in the Paris suburbs, he has built a life defined by emotional distance and safe routines. Now that he is confronted with his own mortality, a desperate yearning takes hold: he quits his job, sells his apartment, reduces his life to a single suitcase, and sets out for Switzerland to find the woman he loved half a lifetime ago.
Returning to his childhood hometown and tormented by the question of what might have been if things had happened differently, Andreas searches for second chances among familiar streets, unresolved grief, and the quiet ghosts of his youth.
From the Booker International Prize finalist and “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review), a stark, gripping novel about sudden endings, lost loves, and the quiet impulse to drop everything and run.
On a day like any other, a sudden medical prognosis shatters Andreas’...
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Peter Stamm is the author of the novels The Sweet Indifference of the World, To the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, and Agnes, and the short-story collections We’re Flying and In Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.
Michael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators' Association's Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls. His translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.
Michael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators' Association's Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls. His translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.
Peter Stamm is the author of the novels The Sweet Indifference of the World, To the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, and Agnes, and the short-story collections We’re Flying and In Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His award-winning books ha...
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