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Blue Soda Siphon

Urs Widmer, Donal McLaughlin · 2014

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In this wildly entertaining novel, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was back then turns up in the present of the early 1990s, during the Gulf War, where he meets himself as an older man, and meets his adult self s young daughter. These head-scratching, hilarious time shifts happen when both the adult narrator and his childhood self go to the cinema and see films, the subjects of which echo their own lives.

Book details

Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Seagull Books
Editions
2
Pages
112
ISBN
9780857422118

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