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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Cow is the story of a Spanish
agricultural laborer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a guest worker. He
is bound for a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is
about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of
the neighboring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labor that have
destroyed him. There he sees the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel^s farm,
now a sad condemned creature in the abattoir. Cow was acclaimed as a
contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read
as a book of archaic power about man, his work, and his food and, most
importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the
animal world.</span></p>



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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Beat
Sterchi</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> was born on 12 December 1949 in Bern,
Switzerland. He is a Swiss author who writes in Standard German and Bernese. He
is best known for his 1983 novel Blösch, which won several awards. The novel
describes the psychological impact of working in an abattoir.</span></p>



