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Zürich is Switzerland's largest city, all lake water, banking discretion and spotless trams. Neutral ground has always attracted other people's secrets, which is why spy stories bank here too. The Bourne Identity opened its account; When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit fled here as a child. Open Zürich on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Zürich on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Zürich
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Browse 21 books, 15 movies and 2 games set in Zürich.
The Bourne Identity
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number he starts to reconstruct his life but finds that many people…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful…
The Bourne Identity
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...Jason…
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
In 1933 in Berlin. Anna is only nine years old when her life changes from the ground up. To escape the Nazis her father Arthur Kemper a well-known Jewish journalist has to flee to Zurich. His family Anna her…
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
In 2008 celebrated author Sir Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Nearly three years on Pratchett considers ways to end his life before the disease consumes him. His search takes him to Switzerland…
The Soul Keeper
Zurich 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor Carl Gustav Jung takes her under his…
The Circle
A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the…
The Defector
Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican.…
The English Assassin
The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists. Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly…
Rhapsody
A rich young beauty Louise Durant follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist…
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