Beat Sterchi: Cow [2018] paperback Condition:New author of Heatstroke

author of Heatstroke

To all these ends

female genital mutilation and the rights of transgender women

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018

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Beat Sterchi: Cow [2018] paperback Condition:New author of HeatstrokeCow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad,