Literaturfest: »SOMMER 24« NAVID KERMANI

In the organizer's words:

Elegant, associative, thought-provoking: the first-person narrator in Navid Kermani's new novel gives an account of his own worldview and prejudices. How free are we when personal and global upheavals shake our familiar world?

He is one of the most important German-language authors: Peace Prize winner Navid Kermani. In his new novel "Sommer 24" (Hanser), he tells of existential upheavals: A friend who had recently gone astray politically has taken his own life. Wars are getting closer and debates are becoming more shrill. His girlfriend thinks the narrator is a macho man, but this is by no means the worst accusation that calls his self-image into question.

Navid Kermani shows our present from its contradictions. How can we reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable? And, more importantly, how can we endure what remains irreconcilable? An existential, clear-sighted novel about our times.