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Thomas Meyer

Born 1974 · Switzerland

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    Schweizer Buchpreis 2012 · Shortlist

    Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse

    Title translated by AI:“Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey into the Arms of a Shiksa”

    Thomas Meyer · 38 when first published

    Novel · 276 pages · Love, Coming of age, Satire

    AI-generated summary:Motti Wolkenbruch, a young Orthodox Jew in Zurich, has a problem: the women his mother lines up for him to marry all look like her. Not so Laura, his fellow student, but she is a shiksa.