'Compelling' new Peter Stamm novel to Granta

Granta Books has signed Into the Vast Land, the new novel by Swiss writer, Peter Stamm.

Granta acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Other Press and French rights have been sold to Christian Bourgois Editeur. 

Into the Vast Land asks what it would be like to disappear from your life and make a fresh start. The story begins with a family returning home from an apparently happy holiday. That evening, the husband gets up and leaves the house. He walks down the road, carries on walking, and doesn’t come back.

Editorial director, Laura Barber, said: "Over the past few years, Peter Stamm has established himself as one of the most distinctive and important novelists writing today and this new novel promises to be his most compelling work yet. It is a novel that quietly, calmly takes away the safe foundations of a marriage and a lifestyle, to ask deeper questions about identity and connection and how free we are to shape our lives. It’s an honour to be the British home for Peter’s work, deftly translated by Michael Hoffman."

Stamm is the Man Booker International and IMPAC award-nominated author of Seven Years (Granta) and All Days Are Night (Other Press).

Into the Vast Land will be published in spring 2017.