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“Untenable Conditions” (title translated by AI)
Alain Claude Sulzer (born 1953)
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For two days they are hidden behind paper, then the seven big shop windows are ceremonially unveiled, and the goods of the long-established Quatre Saisons department store shine anew. For these moments the window dresser Stettler has lived and worked for decades, and people make pilgrimages to see his displays. Now, nearly sixty, he is unexpectedly given a younger colleague: a rival, a designated successor, an enemy. It is 1968, and everything else is crumbling too: young people wear blue jeans, and a Viet Cong flag suddenly hangs from the cathedral tower. Only with a radio pianist he admires, Lotte Zerbst, does he exchange letters.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 266 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland, 1968
- First published
- 2019 by Galiani Berlin
- Author's age
- 66 when first published
- ISBN
9783869711942 (original)