The Stone Flood

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 155. Navy blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Cover art by Harry Brockway. Author's Note.

Translated from the German by John Brownjohn. Originally published in 1998 as Die Steinflut, by Luchterhand, München.

A fictional reconstruction of the tragedy that befell the Swiss village of Elm in the Sernf Valley in 1881, as seen through the eyes of a child and illuminating the consequences of man's neglect of his environment. "[A] brilliant writer in the great tradition of Swiss literature." –Olivier Berger