by Peter Stamm · btb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442725502
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«Agnes» is the novel by Swiss writer Peter Stamm, published by btb in paperback, with 153 pages, in German.
A Swiss man researching luxury railway carriages in Chicago meets Agnes, a physics student. From this relationship emerges a story that he writes at her suggestion; the narrative begins to influence their lives and the boundary between fiction and reality blurs.
It is Peter Stamm's first novel, originally published in 1998; this edition appeared in 2000. The work was awarded the Rauriser Literaturpreis 1999.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction seeking a short novel about love, narrative creation, and the limits between reality and fiction.
Peter Stamm is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.
