Meral Kureyshi

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• Im Meer waren wir nie

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2025 · Shortlist

  Im Meer waren wir nie

  AITitle translated by AI:“We Were Never in the Sea”

  Meral Kureyshi · 42 when first published

  Novel · 213 pages · Family, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:Lili moves into a care home to support her husband, and her family needs someone to visit her. I am that someone, says the narrator, who lives in the same house as Lili's granddaughter Sophie, raising Sophie's son with her.

• Elefanten im Garten

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2015 · Shortlist

  Elephants in Our Yard

  Elefanten im Garten

  Meral Kureyshi · 32 when first published

  Novel · 140 pages · Migration, Family, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:When her father dies unexpectedly, a young woman in Switzerland loses her bearings. For a year she drifts, attends lectures at random and travels to Prizren, the city her family fled when she was ten.