Benjamin Quaderer, FOREVER THE ALPS

Luchterhand - Novel - Hardcover - March 2020 - 592 pages

To escape from those who want him dead, Johann Kaiser lives under a false name in the Witness Protection Program in Australia. But neither the millions he collected for the sale of the tax CD, nor the daily view of the Indian Ocean, can comfort him that he is considered the biggest traitor of all time in his homeland Liechtenstein. In order to clear himself from the accusations, he reaches for pen and paper.

Benjamin Quaderer has written a daring debut novel about the power of money and the power of storytelling. The portrait of an impostor who reflects the society he betrays.

• “Six hundred pages bursting with fantastic ideas and extraordinary stylistic experiments: Benjamin Quaderer's novel "Forever the Alps" is a bookish performance pleasure.” - Süddeutsche Zeitung

• “You follow the author gladly even into the narrowest of sideways paths, willingly going along with every artistically designed detour, so brilliant, so exciting, so funny he wrote all this down.” - SPIEGEL ONLINE

• “You can hardly escape the contagious ontological cheerfulness of the narrator.” - Die Zeit

• “The 30-year-old, who grew up in the Alpine state himself, succeeds in creating a kind of modern Eulenspiegel, an absurd persiflage that will find no equal in the literary world.” - Focus

• “Benjamin Quaderer has created with "Forever the Alps" a miraculous parable of our disappearance.” - Deutschlandfunk

• “Read. Read this book. It has risks and side effects. That’s a good thing about books.” - SWR2

• English sample translation available

Rights sold to: France (Le Seuil)