Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse

Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahsetrans. Katy Derbyshire Incredible how differently mountains are seen. Ski slopes, investment opportunities, holiday regions, hunting grounds, places for climbing expeditions up to the sky, ursine paradise. A narrator and her dog are criss crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for colourlessness, and develop the idea of a walk in

enjoying what is offered

Endlessly surprising and inventive in its handling of narrative perspective

the history of global warming

Ingegärd Waaranperä

handled with the usual slipperiness and smarts—where nothing is quite as it seems

a major figure not only in his life but in his work

and an account of the book’s origins by Thomas Simmonet

” The voyage begins with Carter’s furiously good-humored description of how

addressing power relations and the force of affect

—from the foreword by Lynne Cooke

celebrating the ‘elderly’ as economically viable

good music and unreliable men