My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water

“If this is the next generation, then God help us!” Elke Heidenreich, SRF“It’s like a pilled up journey to hell through scenes taken straight out of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.” Anne-Sophie Scholl, Berner Zeitung“Michelle Steinbeck’s novel is a surreal and giddying tour through an off-kilter world. Verging from comic to nightmarish and back again, often within sentences, it’s absurd, brilliant, and completely unique – a coming-of-age fairytale unlike any you’ve read before.” Sophie Mackintosh Author of The Water Cure“Vividly creepy and fun, Michelle Steinbeck is the lovechild of Robert Wasler and a witch. Fans of Leonora Carrington, Vera Chytilova’s Daisies and the darkest corners of Hans Christian Andersen will delight in this book.” Camilla...