›Chinese Whispers‹ is the name of a children's game, played here with a literary text: It travels around the world and through six languages, and is compared with its original message at the end, with astonishing results. Ten prose pieces: A dream journey that is so suggestive you feel like you are there. A game played with creation myths. A first person narrator who voices the monstrous. An internal monologue between a man as his young and old self about the state of the world and his own personal stories. Legendary tales about gossipy old aunts and places where the author has been or wants to go to. About a century full of mortal agony. About encounters of longing at inopportune moments. And a book of nightmares about what people do to one another. Prose texts, poèmes en prose, poetic, mad, funny, dark, obsessive, yet always told with effortless ease by the inimitable voice of Urs Widmer.