Fiction | Fiction
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
Monica Cantieni
© Schöffling & Co. Verlag
This book’s first-person narrator is a Swiss orphan who is adopted in the 1970s by a family with French and Italian roots. The girl has a hard time with language; words often fail her. Her father gives her words on pieces of paper, which she keeps in little boxes and with which she explains the world to herself. Her interpretations are often unusual. She describes reality accurately but prosaically.
Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut