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Burhan Sönmez – Lovers of Franz K.

Burhan Sönmez Lovers of Franz K. recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Turks-Koerdische roman. Op 1 april 2025 verschijnt bij Other Press de Engelse vertaling van de in eerste in het Koerdisch geschreven roman Evîndarên Franz K. van de uit Turkije afkomstige schrijver Burhan Sönmez. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Burhan Sönmez Lovers of Franz K. recensie en review

  • “His novels are steeped in imprisonment and memory, with echoes of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and George Louis Borges.” (Jason Farago, The New York Times)
  • “The story leads us to an intense and mysterious crime novel that gives the readers a taste of Poe, and by expanding the scope of the references into the thin fabric of the story, it keeps the excitement and curiosity alive from the beginning to the end.” (Bawer Rûken, Bianet)

Burhan Sönmez Lovers of Franz K

Lovers of Franz K.

  • Auteur: Burhan Sönmez (Turkije)
  • Soort boek: Koerdische roman, Turkse thriller
  • Origineel: Evîndarên Franz K. (2024)
  • Engelse vertaling:  Sami Hêzil
  • Uitgever: Other Press
  • Verschijnt: 1 april 2025
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 22,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van in het Koerdisch geschreven roman van Burhan Sönmez

An inventive literary obituary for Kafka, this thriller of love and revenge brings the Cold War to life, from Paris and Istanbul to West Berlin and Tel Aviv.

Amid the student protests in 1960s Europe, Kafka’s best friend, Max Brod, becomes a target of their ire: Against the dying writer’s wishes, he had published texts that never should have been part of his legacy. After Brod is injured in an attempted assassination, assailant Ferdy Kaplan is captured and questioned by Commissioner Müller of the West Berlin police.

As his interrogation progresses, through dialogues in the police station, the courtroom, and the prison, Kaplan’s background is revealed piece by piece, from the love story between him and his childhood friend Amalya, to their shared passion for Kafka, which leads them to join a radical group. But when a shocking discovery is made about the person who ultimately set Brod’s attempted murder in motion, Kaplan and Müller agree to work together to expose the truth.

In this gripping, thought-provoking tribute to Kafka, Burhan Sönmez vividly recreates a key period of history when the Berlin Wall divided Europe, and women were fighting for freedom and against tradition, adopting Jean Seberg’s iconic short haircut from Breathless. More than a typical mystery, Lovers of Franz K. is a brilliant exploration of the value of books, and the issues of anti-Semitism, immigration, and violence that recur in Kafka’s life and writings.

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Agri Ismaïl – Hyper

Agri Ismaïl Hyper. Op 11 januari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Chatto & Windus de debuutroman van de Koerdische schrijver Agri Ismaïl. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en de uitgave. Daarnaast is er aandacht voor de boekbespreking en recensie van Hyper de eerste roman van Agri Ismaïl. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Agri Ismaïl Hyper recensie en informatie

  • “A tightly stitched work of melancholy wit and rueful irony that charts the fortunes of one Kurdish family across generations and geolocations. This is an absorbing and satisfying saga, carried by universal emotion, with each of its sibling protagonists in circumstances of increasing desperation, disillusionment, and displacement. Hyper evokes what it feels like to live now: to surf on or surrender to the mercurial waves of global capital.” (Tom Benn, auteur van Oxblood)

Informatie over de schrijver Agri Ismaïl

Agri Ismaïl is een Koerische schrijver die woont in Zweden. Hij heeft gewerkt als advocaat in Londen, Dubai en Iraaks Koerdistan. Begin januari 2024 verschijnt zijn debuutroman tegelijkertijd in het Engels en Zweeds. Hier leest je uitgebreide informatie over de roman waarvan het niet bekend is of er een Nederlandse vertaling gaat komen.

Agri Ismaïl Hyper.

Hyper

  • Auteur: Agri Ismaïl (Koerdistan)
  • Soort boek: Koerdische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Chatto & Windus
  • Verschijnt: 11 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs:  £18.99 /  £9.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de debuutroman van Agri Ismaïl

When Rafiq Kermanj, founder of the Kurdish Communist Party, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his conservative wife Xezal and three children, they suffer the shame of penury and migration layered on Kurdish statelessness.

Agri Ismaïl’s unforgettable debut novel follows the lives of Rafiq’s children and their increasingly desperate relationship to money. Siver, the only daughter, escapes into an unhappy marriage in Baghdad before fleeing to raise her daughter as a single mother in Dubai. Mohammed, the eldest, stays in London to climb the unforgiving ladder of the financial sector. Laika, the youngest, retreats into a contactless digital life, designing the trading algorithms that will ultimately prove his downfall in a condo near Wall Street. The siblings are so distant from one another that they no longer even share the same language: Siver’s world is presented in sparse fragments of contemporary auto-fiction, freely jumping from past to present; Mohammed’s in a hysterical realism reflecting London after the stock market crash; and Laika’s in a kinetic prose that emulates the speed and rhythms of the internet, a new topic always a click away.

At once a love letter to the systems novel and a subversion of the family saga, Hyper uses the unsettled nature of the Kurdish diaspora to capture the dislocations of life under capitalism.

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