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Jonas H. Khemiri, Rachel Willson-Broyles
(Beteiligte)
Everything I Don´t Remember
Transl.: Willson-Broyles, Rachel
2016. 320 S. 234 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SIMON & SCHUSTER UK; SCRIBNER 2016
ISBN: 1-471-15508-0 (1471155080)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-471-15508-6 (9781471155086)
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Told with tenderness, wit and stylistic ingenuity, a writer pieces together the story of a young man´s death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle
Dazzling, inventive, witty: a writer pieces together the story of a young man´s death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial
A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel´s story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poser. The young man who would do anything for his girlfriend Laide and share everything with his friend Vandad. Until Vandad, marginalised and broke, desperate to get closer to Samuel, drives a wedge between the friends, and Samuel loses them both.
Everything I Don´t Remember is an enthralling tale of love and memory. It is also the story of a writer who, in filling out the contours of Samuel´s life, is trying to grasp a universal truth - in the end, how do we account for the substance of a life?
´With its energetic prose and innovative structure, Everything I Don´t Remember confirms that Jonas Hassen Khemiri is not only one of Sweden´s best authors, but a great talent of our time´ Vendela Vida, author of The Diver´s Clothes Lie Empty
´Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Khemiri´s wry , sharply observed tales of post-9-11 Swedish life have a huge following. This novel´s chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth´ Hari Kunzru
´A generation-defining writer´ Sunday Times
´Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Khemiri´s wry, sharply observed tales of post-9/11 Swedish life have a huge following. This novel´s chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth´ Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without Men
Hassen Khemiri, Jonas
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a novelist and internationally acclaimed playwright considered to be one of the most important young writers in Sweden, where his debut novel was major bestseller and a generation-defining book. His fourth novel, Everything I Don´t Remember, was awarded the August Prize, Sweden´s highest literary honour, and was a Top Ten bestseller. Khemiri lives in Stockholm with his family.