Människan är den vackraste staden

San Francisco sees himself as an explorer. Having left the Horn of Africa, he is stranded in a northern European country with no papers, no money and no open borders, and every day is spent hunting for a route onwards, maybe to America. Along the way he leans on a cast of fellow drifters: Manni, who delivers leaflets and would give up his identity for a residence permit; Richard, once called Hussein, sure that suited men are tailing him; Isol, who keeps a gun in her handbag; Madam, tending a park on an island for her dead husband; and Yei, the wild friend he loses and finds again. All of them feel pursued, though nobody can say by whom.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

367 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Natur & Kultur

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789127155022 (original)