Foreigners
John Lanchester, 5 January 1989
Arabesques
by Anton Shammas, translated by Vivian Eden.
Viking, 263 pp., £11.95, November 1988,0 670 81619 1 Show More
by Anton Shammas, translated by Vivian Eden.
Viking, 263 pp., £11.95, November 1988,
Blösch
by Beat Sterchi, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Faber, 353 pp., £11.95, September 1988,0 571 14934 0 Show More
by Beat Sterchi, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Faber, 353 pp., £11.95, September 1988,
A Casual Brutality
by Neil Bissoondath.
Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £12.95, September 1988,0 7475 0252 8 Show More
by Neil Bissoondath.
Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £12.95, September 1988,
“... can be made of Blösch, which has had the benefit of an exemplary translation by Michael Hofmann. Beat Sterchi’s stir-causing first novel was published in German in 1983: it describes the experiences of Ambrosio, a Spanish gastarbeiter in Switzerland. Ambrosio works on Farmer Knuchel’s dairy farm in Innerwald, where the small, wiry southerner is ... ”
