Survivor (+SVIZRA 5)

What if, just like that, the world as we know it ended?

For an aspiring writer living in a remote hamlet on the Swiss-French border, this once stranger-than-fiction scenario is about to become reality. It begins with the lights and internet cutting out one night – ‘no biggie’, so she thinks.

But when her neighbours don’t return from their trip abroad, the cars vanish from the roads and the birds stop singing outside, every aspect of her life is thrown into question...

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+SVIZRA is a series of eight playfully designed chapbooks published as an exciting showcase of contemporary writing from the four official languages of Switzerland: German, French, Italian and Romansh. It takes its name from the Romansh name for ‘Switzerland’ and is the result of our latest collaboration with an international group of authors, translators, publishers, designers and editors.

In publishing them, along with other sets on the way, we are continuing our mission to broaden the appreciation and breadth in the UK of contemporary European writing in particular and international literature in general against a still rising political tide of mutual suspicion, intolerance and aggression.

In giving equal visibility and weight to each of the four languages, +SVIZRA offers a range of Swiss writing never before seen in English from a diverse group of some of the best authors living and working in Switzerland today, including National Literature Prize winning Anna Ruchat, Iraqi exile Usama Al-Shahmani, and Romansh author, Rut Plouda.