Swiss author Rebekka Salm reads from "Wie der Hase läuft"

Amsterdam, 1943: A shot is fired in a bakery and a young man dies behind the counter. His widow, almost a child, flees to Switzerland. Fifty years later, in the Basel hinterland, a father abandons his wife and child; on the same night, a woman lies dead by the roadside between two villages.

Decades later, Teresa and Mirco meet. They fall in love and try to remember their childhood, which was characterized by loss and silence. Mirco is afraid that the past will repeat itself if they don't let it rest. But Teresa sets off in search of clues and creates their shared history piece by piece.

In her new novel, Rebekka Salm unfolds a panopticon of stories and memories of two families who do not want to remember – and yet, whether they like it or not, are part of a grand narrative.

About the author
Rebekka Salm studied Islamic Studies and History in Basel and Bern. She now lives in Olten. Rebekka Salm is a copywriter and adult educator in the field of migration. She has published her texts in various literary formats. In 2019, she won the Swiss Writers' Trail writing competition. Her winning story was published in the book "Das Schaukelpferd in Bichsels Garten" (2021). In 2023, she received the Literature Prize from the cantons of Baselland and Solothurn and the Dreitannen Prize from the Hans and Beatrice Maurer-Billeter Foundation.

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