Böcker av Navid Kermani

'When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam - our Islam: the Islam I grew up with... In that dark, impersonal room, he was thinking of you.'This is why one father began to teach his daughter night after night not only about his own religion, but about that which unites all believers, about God and death, about love and the infinity that surrounds us. This highly personal book is not only a magical literary masterpiece, but also a rich resource of knowledge, and this because Navid Kermani dares to venture into the darkness in order to give expression to our confusion. And because his way of talking, his openness, his knowledge which derives from his immersion in two cultures, are so unique, so light and so deep.

Ein Schriftsteller hat einen Roman veröffentlicht über die große Liebe seiner Jugend. Nach einer Lesung steht sie mit einem Mal vor ihm. Er ist jetzt Autor, sie seine Romanfigur - und aus dem jungen Mädchen von damals ist eine anziehende, aber verheiratete Frau geworden. Sie lädt ihn zu sich nach Hause ein, und die Situation wird etwas komisch: Man hockt beisammen, trinkt ein Glas Wein, redet über französische Liebesromane, fragt sich, was man von der Liebe erwartet, wenn man älter geworden ist, Juttas Mann sitzt im Nebenzimmer - wie soll das alles enden? Navid Kermani schreibt einen Liebesroman ganz eigener Art, tiefgründig, überraschend, witzig.

A romantic novel like no other. A writer has penned a novel about the great love of his youth. After a public reading, he is approached by a woman he doesn't recognize--but it's his lover. He is the author; she, the figure in his novel. The young girl from back then has turned into an interesting and attractive woman--but she's also married. Soon the situation becomes a little strange: they sit down together, have a glass of wine, talk about French romantic novels, ask each other what one expects of love when one grows older. And all the while her husband is sitting in the next room. How is this going to end? Navid Kermani has written a romantic novel like no other--surprising, witty, profound--and one can barely put it down.

Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster. In September 2016, German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne to the Caucasus and to Isfahan, the home of his parents.

Translation of: Ausnahmezustand: Reisen in eine beunruhigte Welt.

By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route.

The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas.

How can suffering and injustice be reconciled with the idea that God is good, that he loves humans and is merciful to them? Job's question runs through the history of the three monotheistic religions.