"Adikou" - Lesung und Gespräch mit Raphaelle Red

In the organizer's words:

Raphaëlle Red reads from the novel. She will be interviewed by Rita Maricocchi.
Raphaëlle Red was born in Paris in 1997 and grew up in Berlin, where she lives today.
where she lives today. She studied social sciences and most recently researched and taught on contemporary
contemporary literature of the African diaspora and then turned to literary writing.
literary writing.

About the book: Adikou's origins are hazy, her family history blurred. Then, one oppressively hot summer, she can no longer stand it in Paris. Adikou
flies to Lomé, Togo, the birthplace of her father, whom she barely knows. What
What she is looking for is unclear, the questions are asked by others: Are you white, black or both?
both, do you speak Ewe, are you traveling alone, where does your anger come from?
Along the West African coast and all the way to the USA, Adikou searches for a place in history.
place in history - and creates a legacy of snakeskins,
skylines and sticky nights (from the publisher's announcement).

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