Spring of the Barbarians

A wealthy Swiss businessman finds himself in a Tunisian resort at the same time as a group of young Englishmen from London's highest financial circles, who have come to celebrate a lavish wedding. But while the drunken company is sleeping off their night of celebration, Great Britain declares national bankruptcy.

With their credit cards frozen, suddenly unemployed, in a luxury hotel that has become inaccessible to them in an instant, they find themselves one tiny step away from barbarity.

Captivating, comical, wise and grotesque: the debut novel by Swiss-German writer Jonas Lüscher, which has already been translated into 15 languages.