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A short and poignant novel written in the Upper Bernese dialect by the Swiss contemporary Pedro Lenz, known to us primarily from Zhadan's translations of his poetry, is a kind of modern history of the education of feelings, a poetic testimony from the deep Swiss province of the 70s and 80s about the demands of growing up and its impossibility. A warm, concise and poignant tale of loyalty and betrayal, devotion and dependence, attachment and abuse, aspiration and misunderstanding. The complex and contradictory characters, outlined by a few exhaustive hints, are developed primarily in the dashing dialogues. Soft-spoken and vulnerable, tied to place and memories, the protagonist Kipper is desperately trying to come to terms with changes he does not like. His true element is to tell stories. Only this time it is the story of his own life.