Sommer 24

Lisztstr.1

1030 Wien

 

What is it like when the familiar world dissolves, when what was normal yesterday no longer applies today? The award-winning author Navid Kermani captures this moment in a single summer: A friend, who had recently strayed from the political path, has taken his own life. Wars are drawing closer, and the debates are becoming increasingly shrill. His girlfriend considers the narrator a macho, but this is far from the worst accusation leveled against him, shaking his self-image. In an inimitable way, Navid Kermani succeeds in understanding our present through its contradictions, in reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable, and, more importantly, in enduring the truly irreconcilable. An existential, insightful novel of our time.

About the author: Navid Kermani, born in 1967 in Siegen, lives as a freelance writer in Cologne. He has received numerous awards, including... He has received the Kleist Prize, the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and in 2024 the Thomas Mann Prize for his novel "Das Alphabet bis S" (novel, 2023). His other works published by Hanser include "Dein Name" (novel, 2011), "Über den Zufall" (Edition Akzente, 2012), "Große Liebe" (novel, 2014), "Album" (short stories, 2014), "Sozusagen Paris" (novel, 2016), and his correspondence with Natan Sznaider, "Israel" (2023). "Ayda, Bear and Rabbit" (2017) was his first book in the children's and young adult book program of Hanser Verlag, followed by "Everyone Should Get a Step Closer From Where They Are" (2022) and "Home Is Where the Heart Is, Said the Left Hand, Holding On to the Radiator" (with illustrations by Mehrdad Zaeri, 2025).

(Source: burgtheater.at)