"The Gentle Law" is the third volume of Silvio Blatter's grand Freiamt trilogy, which established him as one of the most significant and widely read Swiss authors. It is regarded as a masterpiece of realism and a literary rehabilitation of the concept of home. In "The Gentle Law," the concluding volume of the trilogy, the author focuses on the Wolf family, who call Freiamt their home. Silvio Blatter's other major protagonist, nature, is not spared from humanity's destructive tendencies in this book. The pollution of rivers and air, the contamination of the earth following a nuclear accident – increasingly, humanity is undermining its own foundation of life. "With the novel 'The Gentle Law,' the conclusion of his Freiamt trilogy, Silvio Blatter has definitively proven that he is a storyteller of great merit." Süddeutsche Zeitung. The third volume of the Freiamt trilogy.