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Schweizer Buchpreis 2018 · Shortlist
Das Eidechsenkind
Title translated by AI:“The Lizard Child”
Vincenzo Todisco · 54 when first published
Novel · 214 pages · Migration, Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Officially the child must not exist. In the host country, while his father works on building sites and his mother in a factory, the son of Italian seasonal workers in 1960s Switzerland has to hide under the sideboard and in the wardrobe.