by Will Self · Tempo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783455001976
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«Leberknödel» is the novel by Will Self published by Tempo in paperback (205 pages, in German).
The plot follows Joyce Beddoes, an English widow with liver cancer who travels to Zurich with her alcoholic daughter to undergo euthanasia. At the last moment she decides not to take the poison and, while wandering through the city, her health improves inexplicably, which a Catholic community interprets as a miracle.
The work originally appeared in English in 2008 under the title «Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes»; this German edition was published in 2018.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and for those seeking a German edition of Will Self's narrative.
William Woodard Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Self is currently an honorary Professor at Brunel University London, where his interests include psychogeography.
