Urs Faes

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• Halt auf Verlangen

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2017 · Shortlist

  Halt auf Verlangen

  AITitle translated by AI:“Request Stop”

  Urs Faes · 70 when first published

  Nonfiction · 198 pages · Autofiction

  AIAI-generated summary:Seventeen stops, twenty-seven minutes by tram: on his daily ride across Zurich to radiation therapy, a writer tries to put into words what is happening to him, his fatigue, his fear and his memories of childhood.

• Paarbildung

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2010 · Shortlist

  Paarbildung

  AITitle translated by AI:“Pair Formation”

  Urs Faes · 63 when first published

  Novel · 191 pages · Love

  AIAI-generated summary:Andreas Lüscher, a psychologist who prefers to keep his distance, works as a counsellor on a hospital cancer ward. One day he comes across the file of a patient he loved intensely years ago.