Lukas Bärfuss

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About the book After Father's Box, Lukas Bärfuss now turns to the life of his mother in a moving autobiographical essay. A small town in Switzerland. A household with a woman and her son. There is no man, there are men. And there is always a lack of money, and even more so of tenderness. Lukas Bärfuss's mother was a woman without education and without prospects, but with an insatiable desire for freedom. She saw the child as a shackle; she had not chosen this life. A raven mother, she called herself; her son ended up on the street. She only had the weapon of the powerless, the sharp tongue. And in old age, she had no other option than poverty migration to the Dominican Republic, from one of the wealthiest countries in the world, where retirement was unaffordable for her. The son had to learn early the art of surviving his mother. And in retrospect, he asks himself where personal responsibility ends in a miserable life and where that of an entire society begins. A stirring book, for readers of Edouard Louis and Annie Ernaux. About the author Lukas Bärfuss, born in 1971 in Thun, is a playwright, novelist, and controversial publicist. His plays are performed worldwide, and his novels have been translated into twenty languages. Lukas Bärfuss is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and lives in Zurich. He has received awards including the "Berlin Literature Prize," the "Swiss Book Prize," and the "Georg Büchner Prize." His latest works are Father's Box (2022) and The Crumb of Bread (2023). Source: thurgaukultur. ch - the cultural portal for Thurgau, with dates, topics & people that provoke discussion.