Michel Layaz’s narrator is juggling much more than nostalgia — his traumas are overwhelmingly odd and disturbing, almost to the point of absurdity.
Swiss fiction
Book Review: “Stigmata of Bliss” — From the Master of the Tersely Disquieting
Klaus Merz’s cunning, compressed prose invites us to listen for the sounds of the inexpressible, the other side of life.