The Summer
by Ronya Othmann
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The village is in northern Syria, near the border to Turkey. Leyla spends every summer there. She knows its smells and tastes. She knows its stories. She knows where the villagers’ suitcases are hidden in case they have to escape again. Urgently and poignantly, as if her eyes were wide open, Ronya Othmann’s debut novel tells the story of living in the face of annihilation. Only to defy it. Leyla’s parents are German and Yazidi. She spends lesson time sitting in her secondary school in Munich, and the summer holidays sitting on the earthy floor of her grandparents’ house in a Yazidi village. Leyla is familiar with the outline of Kurdistan, and the shape of the female student she loves. She clicks through pictures of war-torn Aleppo the assassination of the Yazidi by ISIS, and alongside these, carefree photos of her German friends’ everyday lives. Leyla will soon haveto make a decision.
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Ronya Othmann
was born in 1993 in Munich and studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She has received the MDR Literature Prize, the Caroline Schlegel Sponsorship Award in the category of essay, the Open Mike Poetry Prize, and the audience prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Literature Award. In 2018, she was on the jury of the International Film Festival in Duhok in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Iraq. Together with Cemile Sahin, she writes the column Orient-Express for the taz which covers Middle-Eastern politics.
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- Publisher Hanser
- Publication Date August 2020
- ISBN/Identifier 9783446268562
- Pages288
- Publish StatusPublished
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