A Devil Comes to Town

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldlymaking their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming havenstifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parishpriest. The residents have other things on their mind: Literature. Everyone's awriter - the nights are alive with reworked manuscripts. So when the devil turns up ina black car claiming to be a hot-shot publisher, unsatisfied authorial desires areunleashed and the village's former harmony is shattered. Taut with foreboding andGothic suspense, Paolo Maurensig gives us a refined and engaging literary parable onnarcissism, vainglory, and our inextinguishable thirst for stories.