Martin Salander angie knows if it contains the

knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering

is a mirror of the Free Switzerland he had hoped to help build

She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best

This volume

A year later

Martin Salander angie knows if it contains theMartin Salander, one of Gottfried Keller's most famous novels, traces the progress of an impoverished idealist towards becoming a self sufficient, deeply humane individual, offering at the same time a reflection on the social and political changes of the time and a compassionate picture of a family which, for the author, is a mirror of the Free Switzerland he had hoped to help build.