Kim de l’Horizon

The narrator in "Blutbuch" identifies neither as a man nor as a woman. Having grown up in a shabby Swiss suburb, she now lives in Zurich, has escaped the narrow structures of her origins and feels comfortable in her non-binary body and her own sexuality. But then her grandmother falls ill with dementia and her ego begins to grapple with the past: Why are there only fragmentary memories of her own childhood? Why is the grandmother barely able to distance herself from her sister who died young? And what happened to the great-aunt who disappeared as a young woman? The narrator resists the mothers' culture of silence and investigates the non-traditional female bloodline.

Awarded the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize and the Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.