On a Day Like This

“What Peter Stamm has done with this novel is recreate life in all of its quiet banality–this is art… Stamm’s achievement isn’t the mere weaving of a story, it’s the report of a life in quiet crisis.” –Review of Contemporary Fiction

Peter Stammis the author of the novelsThe Sweet Indifference of theWorld,Tothe Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, andAgnes, and the short-story collectionsWe’re FlyingandIn Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich H lderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.Michael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators’ Association’s Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls. His translation of his father’s novel The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.

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