Schwyz.Uri.Unterwalden.

Schwyz. Uri. Unterwalden. is a book-length contemporary essay whose spare fragments transcend the conventions of regional literature as it invites the reader to witness a world both familiar and unexpected. The narrator a foreigner to Switzerland performs 21 walking trips through the founding cantons of the country in order to encounter the landscapes hidden beneath the common clichés. With each discovery of a canton the others are cast in a new light each chapter remapping the meanings of a mountain a meadow a patch of snow. Through extracts of moment by moment experience the text becomes a self-documentary exploration which traces the contours of belonging and the insufficiency of borders which stay in one place. Zweisprachige AusgabeTranslated from the English by Beatrice MingerMit einem Nachwort von / With an Afterword by Christian de Simoni