"From the German novel Stromschnellen by Patrick Boltshauser."

Patrick Boltshauser was born in 1971 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and grew up in Schaan, Liechtenstein. After high school he went to the University of Bern to study biology. During this time he began to work for several theater groups as an actor, director, and playwright. In 1996 he completed his diploma in behavioral ecology. Since 1996, several of his plays have been performed in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Poland. Rapids is his first novel.