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"Winner of the Swiss Literature Award (2022) ""Wry and funny and rich in strange new forms of discomfort, About Uncle is a slim volume that cuts deep, revealing the soft ligaments of family relations and letting them gleam under the light."" --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun ""Disquieting, tender, painfully precise, the language of Gisler is a language of embodiment. To read Uncle is to become him."" --Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind ""A monstrous little novel for a monstrous little man...An uncle like a screwed-up ogre, someone we'd prefer to avoid as much as we'd like to protect him from a world that wasn't made for him. In a hundred pages cracked to let the light through, Rebecca Gisler delivers a tasty and strangely sweet ode to the wobbly and fragile."" --Dominique Fidel, Simple Things"

"Winner of the Swiss Literature Award (2022) ""Wry and funny and rich in strange new forms of discomfort, About Uncle is a slim volume that cuts deep, revealing the soft ligaments of family relations and letting them gleam under the light."" --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun ""Disquieting, tender, painfully precise, the language of Gisler is a language of embodiment. To read Uncle is to become him."" --Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind ""A monstrous little novel for a monstrous little man...An uncle like a screwed-up ogre, someone we'd prefer to avoid as much as we'd like to protect him from a world that wasn't made for him. In a hundred pages cracked to let the light through, Rebecca Gisler delivers a tasty and strangely sweet ode to the wobbly and fragile."" --Dominique Fidel, Simple Things"

"Winner of the Swiss Literature Award (2022) ""Disquieting, tender, painfully precise, the language of Gisler is a language of embodiment. To read Uncle is to become him."" --Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind ""A monstrous little novel for a monstrous little man...An uncle like a screwed-up ogre, someone we'd prefer to avoid as much as we'd like to protect him from a world that wasn't made for him. In a hundred pages cracked to let the light through, Rebecca Gisler delivers a tasty and strangely sweet ode to the wobbly and fragile."" --Dominique Fidel, Simple Things"

Winner of the Swiss Literature Award (2022)

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Rebecca Gisler, born in Zurich in 1991, is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute and of the Master's degree in Cr�ation litt�raire at the University of Paris 8. She writes in German and French and translates her texts from one language into another. She has published poetry and prose in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is the co-organizer of the series Teppich in the House of Literature Z�rich. In 2020 Rebecca Gisler won the 28th Open Mike literature competition. Jordan Stump is one of the leading translators of innovative French literature. The recipient of numerous honors and prizes, he has translated books by Nobel laureate Claude Simon, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, and Eric Chevillard, as well as Jules Verne's French-language novel The Mysterious Island. His translation of NDiaye's All My Friends was shortlisted for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

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