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Vierundsiebzig
“Seventy-Four” (title translated by AI)
Ronya Othmann (born 1993)
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'I have seen. The I is a witness. It speaks, and yet it has no language.' In 2014, fighters of the so-called Islamic State committed genocide against the Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, the seventy-fourth in their history. The narrator, a journalist and writer in Germany, follows the traces of this crime: to the sites of the massacres, refugee camps and front lines, memorials, the living rooms of relatives, and an abandoned Yazidi village in Turkey. She lets survivors speak and keeps asking how to describe horror without exploiting the victims, mixing travel reportage, court records, history and her own story.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 507 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Autofiction, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iraq, Türkiye, Germany
- First published
- 2024 by Rowohlt Verlag
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9783498003616 (original)
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