A memorable and great fiction

Observer

An important stir-casting first novel [with a] gentle, lyrical flavour

London Review of Books

An original, powerful, important novel

Sunday Telegraph

Se alle

It is both captivating and mesmerising... Its pathos and meaning demand to be read and paid attention to in a world where food has never been more political'

Irish Independent

<i>Cow</i>’s timely republication enables this intensely Swiss novel to address seriously today's global concerns with migration, ecological sustainability and the ethical treatment of animals... It is a monumental and unmissable landmark in Swiss literature'

Swiss Riveter

The pages have almost a bovine whiff to them, so immersed are you in the world of Swiss dairy farming

Bath Life

Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir. Cow was acclaimed as a contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read as a book of archaic power about man, his work and his food and, most importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the animal world.
Les mer
<p>An extraordinary Swiss-German novel about a magnificent cow and the Spanish immigrant worker who looks after her. </p>
An extraordinary Swiss-German novel about a magnificent cow and the Spanish immigrant worker who looks after her.
A new edition of a forgotten classic.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781786697479
Publisert
2018-07-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Beat Sterchi is a Swiss teacher and author based in Berne.