The Family Clause(Reprint,Translation) A Novel by JonasHassenKhemiri, Alice Menzies Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-13432-7, ISBN: 0-374-13432-4
"The Family Clause is a novel about a family on the verge of collapse, by the critically acclaimed Swedish author of Montecore“The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn’t write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn’t write that he wants to break the father clause. Instead, he writes: 'Welcome, Dad. Hope you had a goo ..."
"Through a series of quickly changing perspectives, Jonas Hassen Khemiri evokes an intimate portrait of a chaotic and perfectly normal family, deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father."
"Dazzling, inventive, witty: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureauc ..."
"Winner! 2011 Obie for Playwriting A New York Times Critic's Pick! "Invasion!" is a tornado of words, images and ideas, all centered around a magical name: Abulkasem. The play assaults our deepest prejudices about identity, race and language. At once hilarious, disturbing and poignant, this deeply subversive play deconstructs a threatening identity - the Arabic male - and forces us to confront our own cultural identity."
"A new play about our prejudices and identity in the age of suicide bombings in Europe by award-winning Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri. A car has exploded. A city has been crippled by fear. Amor wanders around the city, doing his best to blend in. He's going to exchange a drill head. He's going to call his brothers. He's going to stop stalking Valeria and take care of his long-since-dead grandma. Most important of a ..."
"Three exciting European plays from Theatre cafe, the European theatre project curated by Company of Angels. Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri's deeply subversive play "Invasion!" is a tornado of words, images and ideas: this comic masterpiece deals with the lives of young immigrants in Stockhlom. Funny and irreverant, often deeply moving "Invasion!" succeeds in tearing down the walls between 'us' amd 'them'."""This Child" is one of th ..."
"A 2016 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, as Chosen by Joyce Carol Oates Winner of the August Prize, Sweden's most prestigious literary honor, and from one of Sweden's most celebrated and famous young writers, an innovative and gripping murder mystery that reads like a combination reminiscent of Herman Koch's The Dinner, Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You, and the hit podcast Serial. A young man named Samuel dies in a ho ..."
"At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist—also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri—is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish émigré, come to enjo ..."
"A 2016 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, as Chosen by Joyce Carol Oates One of Sweden's most celebrated young writers and activists spins an exhilarating, innovative, and gripping murder mystery reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash. Was it an accident or was it suicide? To answer that question, an unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to map Samuel's last day ..."
"Told with Khemiri’s characteristic stylistic ingenuity, this is an emotional roller coaster ride of a book that challenges us to see ourselves—and our relationships to the closest people in our lives—in new and sometimes shocking ways ..."
"THE TOP TEN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the August Prize for Fiction Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit ..."
"Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Rachel Willson-Broyles. | CALL MY BROTHERS []
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Jonas Hassen. by Jonas Hassen Khemiri translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles."
Montecore by JonasHassenKhemiri 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59532-4, ISBN: 0-307-59532-3
"It's white against black, it's Swediots against blattar and I swear any blatte that
fight with another blatte, he worse than the biggest Bert Karlsson, we have to stop
fighting with each other, we have to unite and spread love. And every time we
see ..."
"With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of "Kapow!, "Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literaturetwelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just as you'd expect a Kierkegaard story brought into English by Clancy Martin and then sent into Dutch by Cees Nooteboom before being made into English a ..."