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“Of Bad Parents” (title translated by AI)
Tom Kummer (born 1961)
English editions
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A man comes back with his son. He has lost his wife and left one of his children behind in Los Angeles. At night he drives as a chauffeur through his home country, both heaven and hell to him, in search of a new life. Tom, the narrator, works as a VIP driver, collecting senior pharmaceutical managers and diplomats from the airport and taking them to Zurich or Bern. On the night drives, conversations develop of great strangeness and uncanny intimacy, while his thoughts keep leaving the road for Nina, his dead wife, who is a guest on every journey. In the morning he sits by his sleeping son's bed and tries to see a future.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 244 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland
- First published
- 2020 by Tropen
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9783608504286 (original)