Trafika Europe 11 - Swiss Delights

SIMELIBERG (EXCERPTS) BY MICHAEL FEHR TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE

CHAPTER ONE

Grey wet dull a Swiss weather quite a way off the beaten track reached only via a squelchy cart track from above in a remote

desolate farmhouse with an impetuous roof a dilapidated load of grey and black dabs below which a load of blind windows stares vacantly into the bleakness in the far from cheerful parlour the landowner sits with his back to the row of windows after the oppressive silence with which the beams bear down and keep the room low the only man and human in the house outside the rumble comes wobbling down from above closer to the house

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