When the Mountain Fell

by C. F. Ramuz

Other authorsMcKnight Kauffer (Cover designer), Sarah Fisher Scott (Translator)
Hardcover, 1947

Status

Available

Publication

New York] Pantheon Books [1947]

Description

A mountain falls down and an alpine village is frozen in its summer state. When a ghostly figure appears beyond the last house, the villagers are terrorised. Is it a soul trapped in limbo, come to make his baleful complaint? Only one of them recognises him as a survivor, her husband in flesh and blood. The village rejoices, but when the survivor declares his intention to return beneath the rubble, the old doubts resurface. Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz sets his masterful tale of love and loss against the tectonic indifference of the high Alps.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Schmerguls
On Aug 15, 1948, I said: "Read an astonishing book tonight: When the Mountain Fell: amazing, beautiful, moving."

Language

Local notes

An Alpine novel

Barcode

8718
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