Ombra
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Ombra is the fictional life story of the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, who painted pictures like crime novels; the love story of an eccentric lecturer in German at the University of Perugia; and the story of the disappearance in present-day Umbria of the art enthusiast and writer Lem Steffen: »A puzzle, a kind of riddle which - like a detective story - relies on the instrinct of the reader.«
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Ombra is the fictional life story of the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, who painted pictures like crime novels; the love story of an eccentric lecturer in German at the University of Perugia; and the story of the disappearance in present-day Umbria of the art enthusiast and writer Lem Steffen:
»A puzzle, a kind of riddle which - like a detective story - relies on the instrinct of the reader.«
1997, 240 pages
Persons
Urs Faes
Author
Urs Faes, born in Aarau, Switzerland, in 1947, lives and works in Zurich and San Feliciano, Italy. In 2008 he was awarded the Preis der Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung.
Urs Faes
Author
Urs Faes, born in Aarau, Switzerland, in 1947, lives and works in Zurich and San Feliciano, Italy. In 2008 he was awarded the Preis der...
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2020
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2020
Daytimes
A man and a woman meet late in life and experience once again deep affection and happiness, in everyday life and on travels to the landscape of his youth – the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming. But their delights are soon joined by the infirmities of old age, Jakov becomes increasingly forgetful.
A name fails to materialise, an appointment is missed, a garbage bag is thrown into the...
Year of Publication: 2018
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2018
Twelve Nights
After years abroad a man returns to the forlorn yet familiar valley in the Black Forest. He walks the old paths through the heavy snow, remembers the bitter inheritance dispute surrounding his...
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English world rights (Harvill Secker)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (De Bezige Bij)
Year of Publication: 2017
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2017
Request Stop
Request Stop is Urs Faes' most intimate book to date, which grew out of his personal experience of sickness and was written so as to be able to hold on to a pen, to words, to images and to memory. Writing as self-defence against one’s own frailty – and in so doing, coming face to face with life.
Immediately after diagnosis, he is...
Year of Publication: 2014
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2014
Summer in Brandenburg
Love in a time of darkness
Two young people, not quite twenty years old: he, a gangly boy from Hamburg, middle-class upbringing, musical; she, with the dark eyes and the easy laugh, the daughter of a Viennese newspaperman. They meet, they work together, they fall in love – under unusual circumstances.
In the summer of 1938, Lissy Harb and Ron Berend are at a...
Two young people, not quite twenty years old: he, a gangly boy from Hamburg, middle-class upbringing, musical; she, with the dark eyes and the easy laugh, the daughter of a Viennese newspaperman. They meet, they work together, they fall in love – under unusual circumstances.
In the summer of 1938, Lissy Harb and Ron Berend are at a...
Year of Publication: 2010
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2010
Pairing
In his new novel, Urs Faes writes evocatively, lightly and precisely about the battle with cancer, but just as beautifully about two people confronting themselves and their...
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Romania (Univers)
Year of Publication: 2007
Urs FaesYear of Publication: 2007
Archive of Love
»I loved him. He was the great love of my life…«
With these words an old lady introduces herself to the author who has just arrived to attend a reading. It is November, All...
With these words an old lady introduces herself to the author who has just arrived to attend a reading. It is November, All...
Rights sold to:
Chinese simplex rights (Alpha Books), Bulgaria (Atlantis)
