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Beyond Heidi: Books Set In Switzerland
Books in which a reasonable chunk of the narrative is set in Switzerland.
Fiction or non-fiction OK, but no travel guides
And yes, you can include Heidi if you really want to!
Fiction or non-fiction OK, but no travel guides
And yes, you can include Heidi if you really want to!
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Frankenstein
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The Magic Mountain
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 209,495 ratings
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The Visit: A Tragi-Comedy
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3.67 avg rating — 36,532 ratings
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Wilhelm Tell
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3.21 avg rating — 8,879 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
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3.77 avg rating — 147,561 ratings
score: 772,
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The Pledge
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3.90 avg rating — 10,608 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 346,926 ratings
score: 734,
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Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
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4.29 avg rating — 41,427 ratings
score: 665,
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Die Physiker
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3.89 avg rating — 41,769 ratings
score: 660,
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Homo Faber
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3.68 avg rating — 30,587 ratings
score: 648,
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Confessions
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3.59 avg rating — 9,227 ratings
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Der grüne Heinrich. Erste Fassung
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3.79 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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4.11 avg rating — 530,210 ratings
score: 552,
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Asterix in Switzerland (Asterix, #16)
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4.25 avg rating — 7,924 ratings
score: 549,
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Andorra
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3.35 avg rating — 13,179 ratings
score: 475,
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The Eiger Sanction (Jonathan Hemlock, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 12,745 ratings
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Der Richter und sein Henker
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3.70 avg rating — 16,975 ratings
score: 455,
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Hausfrau
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Jill Alexander Essbaum (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 15,772 ratings
score: 388,
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4 people voted
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The Black Spider
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3.47 avg rating — 4,590 ratings
score: 375,
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Man in the Holocene
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3.86 avg rating — 2,308 ratings
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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman / Suspicion
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3.82 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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Hotel du Lac
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3.61 avg rating — 25,087 ratings
score: 373,
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Justiz
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3.59 avg rating — 1,763 ratings
score: 370,
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I'm Not Stiller
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4.03 avg rating — 5,621 ratings
score: 366,
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Kleider machen Leute
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3.12 avg rating — 7,206 ratings
score: 365,
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Gritli's Children
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3.42 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
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3.64 avg rating — 3,666 ratings
score: 353,
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A Village Romeo and Juliet
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3.02 avg rating — 3,779 ratings
score: 342,
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Love and Other Games
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3.80 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 300,
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Bloomability
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4.06 avg rating — 10,628 ratings
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Wax Works
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Julia Juwairiah Simpson-Urrutia (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 299,
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The Manticore (The Deptford Trilogy, #2)
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4.02 avg rating — 6,757 ratings
score: 296,
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World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 5,308 ratings
score: 291,
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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #4)
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4.18 avg rating — 8,331 ratings
score: 286,
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Biedermann und die Brandstifter
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3.65 avg rating — 6,916 ratings
score: 273,
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Jürg Jenatsch
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3.49 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 270,
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3 people voted
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 25,212 ratings
score: 269,
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Die Panne
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4.05 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
score: 269,
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Die Leute von Seldwyla
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3.77 avg rating — 257 ratings
score: 263,
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Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
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3.90 avg rating — 201 ratings
score: 261,
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The Gustav Sonata
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3.89 avg rating — 12,336 ratings
score: 200,
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Pesticide (Linder and Donatelli Mystery, #1)
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Kim Hays (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 200,
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A Bell for Ursli
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4.09 avg rating — 145 ratings
score: 195,
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Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography
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4.18 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Thomas Mann: A Biography
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3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Florina and the Wild Bird
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3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Grand Days
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3.73 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Daisy Miller
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3.37 avg rating — 37,258 ratings
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Der Landvogt von Greifensee
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3.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste in Literary Switzerland
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3.59 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 184,
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Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 188,546 ratings
score: 178,
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Treasures of the Snow
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4.28 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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The Cow
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3.82 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 175,
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The Alp
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3.61 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps
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3.95 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Zwingli
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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On the Edge
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3.88 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Surrender My Love
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3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Devil Comes to Town
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3.53 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Sweet Days of Discipline
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3.62 avg rating — 8,578 ratings
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
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4.02 avg rating — 109,161 ratings
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Dead Centre (Nick Stone #14)
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4.19 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
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Charlotte Aimes: The Great Alpine Adventure
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Libby O'Loghlin (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten
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3.64 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
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The Unfinished Angel
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3.53 avg rating — 2,356 ratings
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Das Schönste, was ich sah
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3.98 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Villa Georgiana (Linley & Patrick, #4)
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Allyson Jeleyne (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
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Katharine Weber (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Zoorich
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
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Sarah Pearse (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 196,816 ratings
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Ann's Alpine Adventure
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Ski Pup
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4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings
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When I Was a Girl in Switzerland
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Moriarty (Horowitz's Holmes, #2)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 31,096 ratings
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Night Train to Lisbon
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3.73 avg rating — 27,350 ratings
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Recoil (Nick Stone, #9)
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Faserland
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Le Dernier Des Weynfeldt
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Mit Sofie auf der Alp
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House of the Whispering Winds
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3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War 2
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4.05 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Count Karlstein
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3.52 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare, #7)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
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Derborence
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3.71 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Volatile Texts: Us Two
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Reap The Wind (Wind Dancer, #3)
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Iris Johansen (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
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Novellen; eerste en tweede deel
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Fantasviss: The Short but not too Brief Tale of an Icelandic Spy in Switzerland
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3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Der grosse Schnee
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Moonrise Over the Mountains
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To the Back of Beyond
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Giugiu & Roro: Eine Geschichte zu Freundschaft und Toleranz in Deutsch und Rätoromanisch
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Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
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The Snowstorm
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Het tuinhuis
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (A Harvest Book)
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Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend
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Cold Shoulder
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Eulenglück und Hasenleid: Der Schweitzer Bilderbuchschatz
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"A reasonable chunk of the narrative" as NOT applying to ... ? :)
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Isn't Biedermann und die Brandstifter set in Germany? (It's an allegory on Hitler's grab for power, after all.)
Themis-Athena wrote: "Isn't Biedermann und die Brandstifter set in Germany? (It's an allegory on Hitler's grab for power, after all.)"I don't know TA. Not familiar with it at all. If you're sure, you can delete it.
We read this way back when in high school; it's a long time since I last looked at it. Max Frisch, the author, IS Swiss of course, but some of his work is a response to the Nazi barbarities and therefore either set in Germany or in some nonspecific German-speaking locale. That's what made me wonder. This play's English title is The Firebugs (or The Fire Raisers). It's the story of an educated middle class everyman who ends up not only admitting arsonists into his house but even handing them the petrol and matches they use to burn it down ... all the while they are perfectly upfront about their intentions, but speak of them in such a way as to make him completely disbelieve they will ever act on them, until it is too late. Powerful story, even if not particularly "Swiss" in nature. I wonder if any of the other German speakers who voted on this list have any clue as to its specific setting?
I'm leaving in a week for a month in Switzerland and searched for a list like this on a whim - thanks Goodreads for literally having everything. It's too bad I'm not fluent in Swiss German...
I want to promote the sweet and innocent vintage girl's books on Switzerland written by Mabel Esther Allan. I live in Switzerland, and was blown away by the accuracy of her descriptive settings. If you only read three of her Switzerland based books, I would recommend Ann's Alpine Adventure (for the Gotthard massif region: Andermatt, Goeschenen, Chur and surrounds), The Vine-Clad Hill aka "Swiss Holiday" in the US (for Italian Switzerland - sunny Ticino and some of northern Italy), and either Three Go to Switzerland OR Seven in Switzerland whichever is easiest to find (for the Bernese Oberland, and specifically Kandersteg, Interlaken and vicinity).
These sweet, nostalgic stories are full of alpine adventure and the joy of seeing Switzerland for the very first time. I really cannot recommend them highly enough for the sort of book you might wish to read en route to Switzerland, or as a light-hearted vicarious trip while seated on your sofa at home.
(I far prefer these to Stella Gibbon's Swiss Summer - Mabel Esther Allan clearly had a much sharper eye for detail and a real gift for relaying it. Only real complaint is that the names she uses for characters (both given and family names) aren't generally very typically Swiss, but nevermind).
Hope it helps. They really are hidden gems, these stories!
I'm out of votes (on the "Switzerland" list, too). Here's one I can't add - maybe someone else could?Journey to America "...Her father knew they had to escape, and he left for America in the middle of the night. He promised to send for Lisa, her mother, and her two sisters when there was enough money. Until then, they were to live in Switzerland. And so they did, waiting, in hardship none of them could ever have imagined."
The Shadow Conspiracy (Matterhorn on the cover), "...His journey will take him from the Bay of Bengal to the murky depths of the Gibraltar strait, from the Swiss Alps to an island untouched for over 30,000 years, all in pursuit of this fateful knowledge..."
Peter Camenzind (Zurich, fictional Nimikon) "Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship, his idealism fades into crushing hopelessness. He finds peace again only when he cares for Boppi, an invalid who renews Camenzind's love for humanity and inspires him once again to find joy in the smallest details of every life."
Heaven Has No Favorites
Tensions and problems of life in a tuberculosis sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps, and the tragic love story of a vivacious girl and a grand prix race-track driver.
The Girl In The Green Valley
"Marnie had left London and an unhappy romance to work at a ski resort in the French Alps. 'See you on the ski slopes, ' she had said to Robert the day before she went. She certainly didn't imagine that he would take her literally and follow her out there. What would David think?" (Harlequin)
Also Until I Find You by John Irving- Zürich is the location (Sanitorium there. Also Hotel zum Storchen and Kilchberg).
Pilgrim is partially set at Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich
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