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Djinns

Dschinns

Fatma Aydemir (born 1986)

Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi

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In English

• Djinns

  Peirene Press · United Kingdom · 22 October 2024 · Paperback · 368 pages

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• Djinns

  University of Wisconsin Press · United States · 2024

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After thirty years of relentless work in Germany, Hüseyin, one of the first generation of 'guest workers', finally fulfils his dream: a flat of his own in Istanbul. On the day he moves in, he dies of a heart attack. His family travels from Germany for the funeral, and his death brings the partly estranged relatives together in the flat, with their fears, hopes and despair. Six very different people, who happen to be related, each tell their side and give away their secrets, and across the generations they share one feeling: of having no home.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

366 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, Germany

First published

2022 by Carl Hanser Verlag

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9783446269149 (original)

9781916806023 (Peirene Press, United Kingdom)

9780299349240 (University of Wisconsin Press, United States)

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