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The Dark Ship
Das dunkle Schiff
Sherko Fatah (born 1964)
Translated by Martin Chalmers
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The Dark Ship
Seagull Books · United Kingdom · March 2021 · Paperback · 444 pages
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The Dark Ship
Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2013 · 420 pages
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Kerim, a cook by trade, sets out from the Iraqi border region on the arduous and dangerous journey to Europe. He had fallen in with holy warriors and moved through the country with them, until he decided to flee their path of violence. In Germany he tries to start a new life, and in this foreign country he finds his first love. But the past will not be shaken off. A modern adventure story that runs through the conflicts between East and West: the life of a young Iraqi Kurd between Islamist terror and the misery of emigration, religious fanaticism and Western indifference.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 440 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iraq, Germany
- First published
- 2008 by Jung und Jung Verlag
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9783902497369 (original)
9780857420367 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)
9780857428394 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)
- More
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