Great Fear on the Mountain
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand / Johnston, Bill
A haunting, allegorical Swiss masterpiece centered around a posse of villagers as they brave dark elements to ascend a mountain, thicketed with loreTeeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while offering character studies as vivid and bracing as Eudora Welty’s.Feed is running low in a rural village in Switzerland. The town council meets to de...