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Gisler's debut novel is about an uncle, his house in
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that the bizarre stories in Gisler's debut novel seem to conceal a trauma. "Only gradually does one realize that a second melody resonates in the hilarity, albeit in a minor key, and that every room in this uncle's house has a false floor."
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in French. While she was still working on the first draft, she first translated a passage and then the entire novel into German herself. The translation work sometimes felt like she was writing the text a second time, she says.
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