Books set in Switzerland

Switzerland — Bern

2004
Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier · novel · 2004
A Bern teacher walks out of class and follows a dead doctor’s words into Salazar’s Lisbon.
1972
The Robber
Robert Walser · novel · 1972
A penniless idler loves and wanders around Bern in Walser’s last novel.
1950
The Judge and His Hangman
Friedrich Dürrenmatt · crime · 1950
A dying Bern inspector investigates a policeman’s murder and an old enemy.

1924
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · novel · 1924
1907–14: a young engineer visits a Davos sanatorium and stays seven years.
1881
Heidi
Johanna Spyri · children’s · 1881
An orphan is sent to live with her gruff grandfather high above Maienfeld.