Markus Werner is a multi-award-winning Swiss author, who published his first novel in 1984. On the Edge is the first of his novels to be translated into English. He has won twelve literary awards and prizes since the publication of his first book, Zundels Abgang. Robert E. Goodwin is a member of the faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He is the author of The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama and translator of Rudiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. He currently lives in upstate New York.
"On the Edge captivates the reader from the very first line."
--Pia Reinacher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on the German
edition
"[On the Edge] appears harmless--and then moves your world."
--Susanne Schader, Die Presse, on the German edition
"The miraculous ease with which this novel combines weighty
philosophical issues with a gripping story is a rarity in
contemporary German literature."
--Marion L�he, Rheinischer Merkur, on the German edition
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