Cinema Tribuna: «Nadine Hostelttler» in Ilanz

"Nadine Hostettler writes as if she would be struck by lightning in the next second."

The great family novel by Nadine Hostettler Paula had always wished her father were dead. Now she stands with her sisters at his coffin. Was it an accident? A suicide? Or even murder?

Max had set out to make a fortune in Las Vegas. Money, success and beauty are the roadmap of the Borel family. The abrupt end of their father tears three sisters out of their lives. Paula sleeps her way across Paris while she waits for her breakthrough as a writer. Cristina is looking for a surrogate mother in India, Zoé is looking for her roots in Geneva.

They meet in California to bury their parents. Paula goes in search of clues. Rarely has the state of our society been told more bitingly and at the same time more tenderly.

«… an immoderate novel in the good sense of the word"
«… narrative power in its richness and beauty"
«… a rarity in contemporary Swiss literature"
Swiss Book Year

Nadine Hostettler grew up in the Swiss watchmaking city of Biel. She has published the award-winning novel The Last Inhibition and the stories Fräulein Matter verliebt sich (Miss Matter in Love) with Schöffling Verlag. Her reports from Latin America have been published throughout the German-speaking world.
Her work was created in Mexico, Havana, Paris and Zurich.