{"title": "Sofalesung: Ed Wige & Yves Raeber – Milch Lait Latte Mleko", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel", "history/war"], "description": "At a Sofalesung, Swiss debut authors present their texts in a personal setting, seated on a shared-flat sofa or studio couch. Ed Wige presents her novel «Milch Lait Latte Mleko», which tells of a mother and daughter who flee the war in Yugoslavia and end up in Switzerland. Through the girl's eyes, the novel explores exile, the consequences of war, the new language and the family's secrets. The reading is moderated by Edward Mandry and held in French with German translation by Yves Raeber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sofalesung-ed-wige-yves-raeber-milch-lait-latte-mleko-639/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/sofalesung-ed-wige-milch-lait-latte-mleko/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/088f4e9c0f00641c5fbfb41ecde15d76d3bddcdb645756e60b3fb8442c4b36df-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Sofalesung: Ed Wige & Yves Raeber – Milch Lait Latte Mleko – AUSGEBUCHT", "start": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/exile", "literature/fiction"], "description": "At this Sofalesung, a Swiss debut author presents her texts from a shared flat sofa or studio couch in a personal setting. Ed Wige reads from «Milch Lait Latte Mleko» (Verlag Die Brotsuppe 2026, translated from the French by Yves Raeber). Told through the eyes of a girl whose mother and she flee the war in Yugoslavia to Switzerland, the novel speaks of exile, the aftermath of war and family secrets. 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The book tells of the war in Sarajevo from April 1992 onwards from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy surviving in the city's ruins. It also explores the close connection between images of masculinity, violence and war.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/lesung-zu-radio-sarajevo-25197/", "official_url": "https://paranoiacity.ch/samstag-31-oktober-1900-uhr-lesung-zu-radio-sarajevo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2345bde44af8159f8561dcd61dfd3ded26468abfd32e3d6c04f87a32961b0d5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ECHO – Vernissage und Lesung mit Medaur Sadrija", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Labor5 Bar", "address": "Schiffbaustrasse 3, 8005 Zürich", "price": "CHF 25.00", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.labor5.ch/events/echo-vernissage-und-lesung-mit-medaur-sadrija", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "art"], "description": "At the vernissage for «ECHO» at Labor5 Bar, Medaur Sadrija reads from his first poetry book. The collection deals with origins and uprootedness, with his parents' migration and with life between a lost homeland and a new present. His poems move through the spaces of memory, telling of painful memories and longing, but also of warmth and beauty. Together with the author, guests immerse themselves in a reading about origins, family, memory and the life in between.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/echo-vernissage-und-lesung-mit-medaur-sadrija-6190/", "official_url": "https://www.labor5.ch/events/ECHO-Vernissage-und-Lesung-mit-Medaur-Sadrija05-11-2026-1830525", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8820f3e850b2f292b45382c432c5b622c26480b917d91dd0642cd476f3c4fb8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Broken Mirrors \"Sinalcol\" by Elias Khoury", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "mille et deux feuilles", "address": "Glasmalergasse 6, 8004", "price": "Kollekte", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/novel"], "description": "A reading from the novel Broken Mirrors \"Sinalcol\" by the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury. 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