Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Born in Switzerland, Christoph Keller is a novelist, memoirist and editor. His books include the bestselling 2003 memoir-novel Der beste Tänzer (The Best Dancer) and 2019's Der Boden unter den Füßen (The Ground Beneath Our Feet; winner of the Alemannic Literature Prize). Based for many years in New York City, he now lives in St Gallen.<b>Fascinating </b>... [The book is] <b>a series of snapshots, anecdotes, poems and short stories about what it is to be disabled in a world that isn't very interested in accommodating disability. This isn't an angry book, it's a very funny one </b>... <b>compelling and unsettling</b>. The tension between Keller's intellect and his physical weakness courses through the writing ...Yet his gripe is not with his own physical limitations ... <b>Keller is asking us to consider whether it is disability that is the problem, or whether it is a society that insists on seeing people with disabilities that way</b>
- Rosie Kinchen, The Sunday Times
<b>A defiant call to arms</b> ... angry and funny in equal measure ... [Keller's life story is] enough to move any reader to remove dust from their proverbial eye ... <b>moving</b> ... <i>Every Cripple a Superhero </i><b>lingers long in the memory</b> <b>after its final page</b>
- Craig Campbell, Morning Star
<b>A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny</b>
- Joanne Limburg, author of Letters to My Weird Sisters,
What is it like to have a 'wasting' disease? <b>In <i>Every Cripple a Superhero, </i>the excellence of Christoph Keller's writing is matched by its fearlessness</b>. Precision, tragicomedy, <b>quiet rage, elegant storytelling</b>; every awkwardness, every frustration, every terror, <b>every abjection is illuminated by the superpower of his style</b>. No word or phrase is wasted in this marvellous book. And by the way, it is also a love story
- Alicia Ostriker, New York State Poet Laureate 2018-2021 and author of The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019,
<b>An eye-opener</b> regarding the everyday obstacles the author has to overcome when negotiating his local environment. The passage describing the absurd, insulting, and tragi-comic experience of visiting an award-winning new building and finding the only way to enter by wheelchair is via a remote corner of the building should be <b>compulsory reading for anyone aiming to design inclusive spaces</b>
- Laura Vaughan, Professor of Urban Form and Society, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London,
<b>Shocking ... </b>Keller's humor is<b> quiet and sophisticated, melancholic and sarcastic, wide awake and always open to the unexpectedly beautiful</b> ... [his] book <b>has a lightness that brings tears to your eyes</b>
Kulturzeitschrift
<b>Everyone who doesn't use a wheelchair, and everyone who does, should read Christoph Keller's<i> Every Cripple A Superhero</i></b>. So many worlds exist side-by-side, yet <b>we seldom truly enter the experience of another</b>. Grace, strength, and humor are superpowers of extraordinary depth and stature, and<b> Keller's slender, powerful book glows like a supernova</b>
- Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite,
<b>Explosive and moving</b>, the book also has a real capacity to open the eyes of readers and to change attitudes
Procap Magazine
<b>Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers</b>
Neue Zürcher Zeitung