Martin R. Dean

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• Tabak und Schokolade

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2024 · Shortlist

  Tabak und Schokolade

  AITitle translated by AI:“Tobacco and Chocolate”

  Martin R. Dean · 69 when first published

  Novel · 220 pages · Autofiction, Family, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:After his mother's death, the narrator finds an album of photos from his early childhood in Trinidad and Tobago. As a young woman from a family of cigar workers in Aargau, she had a child by a man of the West Indian upper class.

• Verbeugung vor Spiegeln

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2015 · Shortlist

  Verbeugung vor Spiegeln

  AITitle translated by AI:“Bowing Before Mirrors”

  Martin R. Dean · 60 when first published

  Nonfiction · 101 pages · Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:In essays, a writer, the son of a Swiss mother and a father from Trinidad, asks how much meeting the foreign, on journeys and in literature, has made him who he is, and fears that globalisation is erasing it.