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Freitag, 19. Oktober 2018

BUCHHANDLUNG BÖDELI
Interlaken
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Donnerstag, 8. November 2018

BUCHHANDLUNG AM HOTTINGERPLATZ
Zürich
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Samstag, 2. März 2019

LITERAARE, THUNER LITERATURFESTIVAL Thun
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KULTUR TIPP 20/18
With his second novel “Bel Veder” the Bernese writer Mirko Beetschen delivers a thrilling chamber play with scary elements.

Gregor Szyndler, Kulturtipp

Bel Veder

dark Gothic novel set in the Bernese Alps
intelligent suspense with a classic approach
the Swiss author's second novel after ‹Schattenbruder›

hardback with dust jacket, 13 x 21 cm, approx. 450 pages
cover image: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Eidgenössisches Archiv für Denkmalpflege (EAD): Archiv Photoglob-Wehrli
CHF 32.–/EUR 29.–
ISBN 978-3-7296-0997-6

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The author cleverly arranges the motifs and stylistic elements of a classic Gothic novel into an atmospherically dense, gripping thriller that is most certainly no bedtime story.

Synopsis

Autumn 1946. The ancient owner of an abandoned grand hotel in the Bernese Alps disappears without a trace and is declared dead. His niece Eleanor arrives with her twin sister Violet from Baltimore to claim the inheritance and meets the members of her European family.

Until the opening of the will the small group settles within the empty rooms of the remote hotel palace and dreams of revived grandeur. Eleanor, however, feels increasingly threatened by the strange environment. The mountains as well as the abandoned halls and corridors of the hotel unsettle her. Is the old building really as empty as it seems. When a terrible accident happens and an unexpected snowstorm cuts the hotel off, the situation escalates.

Mirko Beetschen
author, journalist & entrepreneur

Mirko Beetschen

Mirko Beetschen was born in Interlaken, Switzerland, in 1974 and grew up on Lake Thun. After his studies of English and American Literature, Media Sciences and English Linguistics, stays in the US and England, bigger and smaller jobs as bookseller, cave guide, playing bus supervisor and magazine editor, he now works as a writer and freelance journalist among other things and is co-owner of the Bergdorf Company.

Together with Stéphane Houlmann he has published the German interior books ‹Bergwärts› (DVA, 2012), ‹Men’s Homes› (Knesebeck, 2013) and ‹Wohnort Zürich› (DVA, 2014.)

After the psychological thriller ‹Schattenbruder› (Bilgerverlag, 2014), ‹Bel Veder› is his second novel and his first book with Zytglogge publishers.