"[Kramers body of work is] precise and sumptuous . . . a song of emotion, but with a great lucidity about the humanity of simple people."Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Grand Prize for Literature citation"You need to read Pascale Kramers books because they take you on a journey. You board a small ship that enters the human body, and what you felt while reading follows you for days after youve closed the book."Elle (France)"Restrained, chiseled, implacable, the novels of Pascale Kramer perfectly master the art of creating a diffuse discomfort. Poignant."Marie Claire (Switzerland)When a young woman returns to her childhood home after her estranged fathers death, she begins to piece together the final years of his life. What changed him from a prominent leftwing journalist to a bitter racist who defended the murder of a defenseless African immigrant? Kramer exposes a country gripped by intolerance and violence to unearth the source of a familys fall from grace.Set in Paris and its suburbs, and inspired by the reallife scandal of a French author and intellectual, Autopsy of a Father blends sharp observations about familial dynamics with resonant political and philosophical questions, taking a scalpel to the racism and antiimmigrant sentiment spreading just beneath the skin of modern society.Pascale Kramer, recipient of the 2017 Swiss Grand Prize for Literature, is the author of fourteen books, including three novels published in English The Living, The Child, and...

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 330 g; Dimensions: 195 x 139 x 14

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