Bøger af Navid Kermani

Det store Europa, der øst for Tyskland strækker sig fra Rusland til Orienten, er et historisk krigs- og katastroferamt Europa. Her er tyske Navid Kermani taget på en rejse langs de historiske skyttegrave og mentale ar i søgen efter en forståelse af Europas nye skillelinjer. Fra hjembyen Köln går Kermanis tur til Auschwitz, videre over Litauen, og til strålingsramte Tjernobyl. Han besøger det smukke, knækkede Tjetjenien, et Ukraine klemt mellem Europa og Rusland og afslutter rejsen i forældrenes fødeby Isfahan i et affortryllet og radikaliseret Iran. Gennem møder med unge og gamle, præster, politikere og forfattere, undersøger Navid Kermani de grænser og grave mellem etniciteter, religioner og ideologier, som i århundreder har defineret det østligste Europa og brutalt bestemt så mange menneskeskæbner. Langs grænser og grave er en intellektuel og personlig rejseodyssé båret af en håbefuld fortælling om et bedre Europa. Anmeldelser Fascinerende og medrivende ♥♥♥♥ – Politiken "Langs grænser og grave er et tankevækkende bidrag til diskussionen om, hvad Europa er." – Weekendavisen ”Hans bog er en imponerende tour de force.” ★★★★ – Kristeligt Dagblad ”En bog så svulmende og bevægende, at man bør bruge 54 dage – en for hvert kapitel – så man kan dykke ind i en ny verden hver dag” – NDR ”Beretningerne er i særdeleshed et forsvar for Europa – og et nervøst skrift mod dets blodige historie” – Dagbladet Information ”Kritisk rejselitteratur når det er allerbedst” – Wiener Zeitung Navid Kermani (f. 1967) er en toneangivende tysk forfatter, journalist, islamforsker og intellektuel. Han har bl.a. skrevet Wer ist Wir? Deutschland und seine Muslime (2009) og Ungläubiges Staunen. Über das Christentum (2015). Han har vundet adskillige priser for sine værker: bl.a. Kleist Prisen, Joseph Breitbach Prisen, Hannah Arendt Prisen og De Tyske Boghandleres Fredspris i 2015.

'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.

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.