Djinns

by Fatma Aydemir

£12.99

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For thirty years, Hüseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and their four children. Finally, he has set aside enough to buy an apartment back in Istanbul – a new centre for the family and a place for him to retire. But just as this future is in reach, Hüseyin’s tired heart gives up. His family rush to him, travelling from Germany by plane and car, each of his children conflicted as they process their relationship with their parents, and each other. Reminiscent of Bernardine Evaristo or Zadie Smith, Djinns portrays a family at the end of the 20th century in all its complexity: full of secrets, questions, silence and love.

Publication date: 22 October 2024
368p, ppaperback with flaps, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1-916806-02-3

Press & Reviews

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2022

WINNER OF THE ROBERT GERNHARDT PRIZE 2022

‘A profoundly moving journey through grief toward freedom.’ – Musa Okwonga

‘Fatma Ayedmir’s voice has a power that goes straight to your heart one minute and straight to the pit of your stomach the next.’ – Alena Schröder

‘Aydemir has a gift for empathising with almost every single one of her characters – it’s hard to tear yourself away.’ – SPIEGEL Bestseller supplement

‘A stunningly intense and multi-layered novel – a brilliant family epic.’ – Stern

About The Book

Author

Fatma Aydemir was born in Karlsruhe in 1986. She lives in Berlin and is a columnist and editor for the taz newspaper.Her debut novel, Ellbogen, was published by Hanser in 2017, and won the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize and the Franz Hessel Prize. In 2019 she published the anthology Your Homeland is our Nightmare together with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah.

Djinns was awarded the Robert Gernhardt Prize, and shortlisted for the German Book Prize.

Translator

Jon Cho-Polizzi is an educator, activist, and freelance literary translator, and a Collegiate Fellow and Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan. Cho-Polizzi received his PhD in German and Medieval Studies from UC Berkeley after studying Translation, History, and Literature in Heidelberg and Santa Cruz. He lives and works between Ann Arbor, Northern California, and Berlin.

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