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Barbarian Spring
Frühling der Barbaren
Jonas Lüscher (born 1976)
Translated by Peter Lewis
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Barbarian Spring
Haus Publishing · United Kingdom · 2014 · 132 pages
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On a business trip, the Swiss factory heir Preising finds himself at an upmarket oasis resort in Tunisia, where he witnesses elaborate preparations for a wedding. Wealthy young English people from the London financial world have gathered friends and family for a great party and are celebrating extravagantly in advance, while signs of economic crisis thicken into catastrophe: the British pound collapses, and soon after, England is bankrupt, with consequences that do not spare Tunisia either. Preising, as a Swiss spared the worst, sees how thin the veneer of civilisation is, and learns his own lesson in globalisation, since his company has its goods made in Tunisia.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 125 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Tunisia
- First published
- 2013 by C. H. Beck
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9783406646942 (original)
9781908323835 (Haus Publishing, United Kingdom)
- More
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