Fiction | Fiction
The Flying Mountain

Christoph Ransmayr

Two Irish brother, Liam and Padraic, want to climb an unknown mountain in eastern Tibet. They immerse themselves in this mysterious country of nomads and nature, reflect on their past, the difficult family relationships, with a strict father whose sympathies lay with the IRA, and a mother who disappeared from their lives. 

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Engl. (Ind.)

The Flying Mountain
Christoph Ransmayr
Translation: Simon Pare
Ko, Seagull Books 2019
384 pages
Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

German original title

German

Christoph Ransmayr
Der fliegende Berg

Frankfurt a. Main, S. Fischer Verlage 2006
359 pages

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