Džinové – Aydemirová Fatma (2024)

An impressive family novel about people who cannot live in the present because they do not know their past. ***** Hüseyin worked in Germany for thirty years and can finally fulfill his dream — to buy an apartment in Istanbul. However, on the very day he moves into the apartment, he dies of a heart attack. His wife and four adult children come from Germany for the funeral, but alongside their grief, unhealed wounds begin to resurface, and long-hidden secrets come to light. ***** Fatma Aydemirová's grand family novel tells the story of a German-Kurdish family from the perspective of its individual members — six very different people who are related only by coincidence. They all have their own troubles, secrets, desires, and wounds. However, they are united by the feeling that someone is watching them in Hüseyin's apartment. ***** In the novel Djinn, Fatma Aydemirová seeks answers to questions about what family is, whether we are capable of forgiving each other, and who we actually are. Last but not least, it is a tender and sensitively written story about the fates of hundreds of thousands of Turkish emigrants who came to Germany in the 1960s in search of a better life.