All Dogs Die
by Cemile Sahin
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Nine people whose lives are dominated by Turkish soldiers’ torture, violence and abductions. Among them: a mother who loads her dead son onto a pickup truck. A man who lays his sleeping daughter under a bush before setting fire to his house. A woman kept in a kennel, chained up like a dog. Nine people who find exile in a tower block in the west of Turkey. Yet as they share the stories of their escape, the military’s systematic terror catches up with them again.
All Dogs Die is a chronicle of individuals in the face of violence and obliteration – told in determined, clear, deeply moving style.
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Selected for New Books in German.
English sample available.
Reviews
»The determination, clarity, rigour and certainty in Cemile Sahin’s tone is a force to be reckoned with.« FAS
»All Dogs Die is subtly constructed, cleverly conceived, linguistically powerful. Sahin manages to depict trauma by working with repetition, by focusing exclusively on what actually happened to the characters and in those places.« TAZ
»All Dogs Die is not only one of the most impressive books of the year, it’s also one of the darkest. A world as Kafkaesque and nightmarishly brutal as Sahin describes is encountered nowhere else in contemporary German literature – although many of the refugees who have fled to Germany in the past few years have similar experiences to report.« FAS
Author Biography
Cemile Sahin is a visual artist and writer, born in Wiesbaden in 1990. She studied in London and Berlin and was awarded the ars viva prize for fine art. Her artwork takes as its starting point the interplay of images or stories, which she stages anew in her films and writing. The effect is to question the functionalization of media and stress the importance of a variety of perspectives in writing stories. Her debut novel Taxi (Korbinian Verlag) is followed by All Dogs Die. She received the Alfred Döblin Medal for her writing.
Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG is an independent publishing house with a broad program of fiction and non-fiction titles. Each year, about 200 new titles are published by its four imprints Aufbau, Rütten & Loening, Blumenbar and aufbau taschenbuch. Aufbau Verlag was founded in 1945 with the motivation to create a new cultural orientation for the people in post-World War II Germany. It soon became the leading cultural and literary publishing house in East Germany. Today Aufbau publishes a strong literary fiction program with German and international voices as well as an outspoken non-fiction list. Aufbau is successful with literary re-discoveries from its comprehensive backlist of modern classics, exile and resistance literature and GDR literature.
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- Publisher Aufbau Verlag
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783351038274
- FormatHardback
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleAlle Hunde sterben
- Original Language AuthorsGerman
- Copyright Year2020
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