Eine Frau zu sehen by Annemarie Schwarzenbach

All the Roads Are Open, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, was first published as a full English collection in 2011. Death in Persia was only published in German in 1998, long after Schwarzenbach's death, and first published in English translation by Lucy Renner Jones in 2012.

Finally, we have the opportunity to read her: Seagull Books have reissued two recent and excellent translations of Schwarzenbach's literary travel writing. In fact, the pieces also reflect the experience of crisis, the loss of confidence which, in that decade, seized the long-arrogant culture of the West.' * Suddeutsche Zeitung * 'Few of Schwarzenbach's own writings have been translated into English, and even fewer are available in print. She shows no trace of colonialist arrogance. But the author never loses sight of the historical and social context. 'Death in Persia, no matter the high correlation with Schwarzenbach's real experience, is a finely crafted work.' - Daniel Shvartsman * Bookslut * 'Above all, discovery of the Orient was a personal one. Chronologically preceding Schwarzenbach's exquisite travelogue All the Roads are Open, an account of her automobile journey from Geneva to Afghanistan in 1939, Death in Persia is the enthralling diary of an astute observer standing at the crossroads of major events in history and a gorgeous new addition to Annemarie Schwarzenbach's growing English-language oeuvre. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations from her friends of having deserted Europe and the antifascist cause for Tehran, Schwarzenbach recorded a great deal about daily life in Persia, and, most personally, her ill-fated love affair with Jale, the daughter of the Turkish ambassador. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 19.

Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach-journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist-has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians.

Eine Frau zu sehen by Annemarie Schwarzenbach