Barbarian Spring
ISBN: 9781908323842
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Haus Publishing
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site of an old Berber oasis. With the wedding party in full swing and the bride riding up the aisle on a camel, no one is aware that the global financial system stands on the brink of collapse. As the wedding guests nurse their hangovers, they learn that the British pound has depreciated tenfold, and their world begins to crumble around them.

So begins Barbarian Spring , the debut novel from Jonas Lüscher, a major emerging voice in European fiction. The timely and unusual novel centers on a culture clash between high finance and the value system of the Maghreb. Provocative and entertaining, Barbarian Spring is a refreshingly original and all-too-believable satire for our times.

Jonas Lüscher is a Swiss writer and doctoral student in philosophy at the ETH Zürich. Peter Lewis is the translator of such works as Sabine Gruber's Roman Elegy and Roger Willemsen's The Ends of the Earth .

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