by Eveline Hasler · Nagel & Kimche · tapa dura · ISBN 9783312001149
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«Ibicaba: Das Paradies in den Köpfen» is the historical novel by Eveline Hasler, published by Nagel & Kimche in hardcover (279 pages, in German).
Set around 1850, it narrates the emigration of Swiss people to Brazil and their attempt to build a new life in an unknown country. Between historical account and personal drama, the novel explores the distance between the imagined paradise and the reality of the journey and settlement, as well as questions about identity and belonging.
The work was first published in 1985; the edition includes illustrations on the endpapers and bibliographic references.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in European emigration to Brazil.
Eveline Hasler is a Swiss writer. She has written novels and children's books which have been translated into many languages. One of her most-read works is the novel Anna Goeldin – The Last Witch. It fictionalizes one of the last witchcraft trials in Europe and was published in 1982, at the bicentennial of the execution of Anna Göldi. Hasler was awarded a Schiller Foundation prize for her first novel Novemberinsel.
