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September: Mirage

September, Fata Morgana

Thomas Lehr (born 1957)

Translated by Mike Mitchell

English editions

In English

• September: Mirage

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · February 2019 · Paperback · 426 pages

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Two fathers and two daughters. Martin, a German-American professor of German, lives with his daughter Sabrina in the United States; the Iraqi doctor Tarik and his daughter Muna live in Baghdad. Nothing connects the two families. Then Sabrina dies in the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, and Muna is killed by a bomb in Baghdad in 2004. Told by the four voices as one long poem, between New York, where the towers fall, and Baghdad, where 'the air bleeds', with lines by Goethe, Hafez, Rückert, Adonis and many others weaving the two worlds together.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

477 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, War, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Iraq, 2001–2004

First published

2010 by Carl Hanser Verlag

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9783446235571 (original)

9780857426321 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

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