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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/roland-buti/year_of_the_drought.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/roland-buti/year_of_the_drought_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Year of the Drought" alt ="Year of the Drought"/></a><br//>"It was the month of June, in the year 1976. I was thirteen. It was the start of the summer holidays. It was the year of the drought."<br>The Sutters have been farming on the Swiss plateau for generations, but now the household teeters on the brink of ruin. The crops are audibly roasting; the ventilators in the new hen-house are breaking down; even the family sheepdog, Sheriff, has taken to fainting in the unheard-of temperatures.<br>When a mysterious guest arrives at the farm, she quickly becomes a focus for dreams that have long been suppressed &#8212; of freedom, art and sex. With only his injured dove and his comic books for company, thirteen-year-old Auguste observes helplessly as his family and his carefree childhood dissolve in the heat. <br>A tender, funny, elegiac novel about a lost rural way of life, Year of the Drought is a perfect companion to Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life. Taking place over one apocalyptic summer, it evokes several worlds...]]></description>
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