Shift Sleepers

A novel by a Swiss writer that features figures from all over Europe from different walks of life coming together in secret to talk through their experiences hopes and dreams. Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers smugglers refugees workers asylum seekers inspectors artists musicians actors journalists scholarship holders logisticians students and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives of our time and they have conversations about origins and justice body and state import and export homeland and migration. They talk together about happiness music and death. In Shift Sleepers Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger has produced a novel that sheds light on the controversial issues of our time finding a new language for this conversation previously unheard in contemporary German literature.