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190 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 2021
And a peculiar kind of people had sprung up here in the last sixty years: essentially coarse, aloof mountain farmers whose minute plots of land were suddenly worth hundreds of millions of francs, and these fantastic prices depended upon which oligarchs showed up to ski in that particular season. It had become a valley of absurdities, my homeland.
And the food in Switzerland, which always tasted so much better than it did elsewhere? It was manufactured by child slaves who added drugs from the Nestlé company so that people enjoyed eating it and did as they were told and remained good Swiss. The Swiss would all eat their Soylent Green and go to work and go to sleep and wake up the following day, and absolutely nothing would happen. There was no music and no films and no literature; there was nothing whatsoever in Switzerland except that Swiss longing for more banal luxury, the desire for sushi and colorful sneakers and Porsche Cayennes and the construction of further gigantic home improvement centers in the sprawling Agglos.