Christoph Keller (1963), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and writing in German and English, is the author of numerous prizewinning novels, plays and essays in German, including I'd Like My Country Flat (Ich haette das Land gern flach, 1996), the best-selling memoir The Best Dancer (Der Beste Taenzer, 2003) about his life with the progressive neuromuscular disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy, A Worrisome State of Bliss (stories written in English, 2016) and The Ground Beneath the Feet (Der Boden unter den Fuessen, 2019). In 2017, Alice James Books published We're On: A June Jordan Reader, coedited with Jan Heller Levi. Keller lived in New York for twenty years. In 2018 he heeded the president's advice and went back to where he came from. www.christophkeller.us
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Welcome to Christoph Keller's America the Beautiful & Other Indictments, whose title is as misleading as its apercus are biting original. Like pinpricks penetrating a dark veil, these glittering insights are arranged as cunningly as they are crafted, for a constellation greater than the sum of its shards. - Madison Smartt Bell, author, All Souls Rising, The Year of Silence Some observations from the European press on Christoph Keller's latest novel in German, Der Boden unter den Fuessen (The Ground Beneath the Feet): A poetic and optimistic book. - WDR5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) Magical! - Style A narrative jewel. - Neue Zuercher Zeitung am Sonntag Suedkurier Who travels, they say, educates themselves. But maybe they only pollute the world. - Suedkurier ... featherlight, sparklingly elegant as Duke Ellington's piano. - kulturzeitschrift (Austria)