Fatma Aydemir

En av de 100 beste tyske romaner de siste 100 årSpiegelÅret er 1999. I tretti år har Hu¨seyin arbeidet i Tyskland. Nå kan han endelig oppfylle drømmen om å kjøpe en leilighet i Istanbul. Men på innflyttingsdagen faller han død om og hans kone Emine og deres fire barn Hakan, Perihan, Ümit og Sevda må reise fra Tyskland til Tyrkia for å begrave ham. Hvis alle familier er et nett av historier, hva kan hullene i nettet fortelle? Trenger vi hullene fordi vi ikke kan se hele sannheten i øynene? Eller vil hullene til slutt ødelegge alt? Djinner er en fortelling om seks fundamentalt forskjellige mennesker som tilfeldigvis er i familie. De bærer alle på sine egne hemmeligheter, lengsler og sår, men de er forent av følelsen av at noen holder øye med dem i Hu¨seyins leilighet i Istanbul.«Sensasjonell … Noen ganger vil du bare ha en stor familiesaga å forsvinne inn i – og det finnes ikke noen som er mer opp slukende denne høsten enn Djinner.» Guardian«Familiehistorien, like rørende som urovekkende, fengsler leseren fra start. Stillheten og fortielsene i familien er levende beskrevet.» Die Zeit

Finalista del Deutscher Buchpreis Premio Robert Gernhardt Premio LiteraTour Nord «Es dif cil no quedarse enganchado a Demonios . -Der Spiegel «Un fresco familiar de una intensidad extraordinaria . -S ddeutsche Zeitung «Una lectura que te abre los ojos . -ARD Druckfrisch H seyin Yilmaz muere de un infarto el d a que cumple su sue o de regresar a Estambul para jubilarse. Han pasado treinta a os desde que este hombre de origen kurdo emigrara a Alemania, en la d cada de 1970, para trabajar de forma incansable y sacar adelante a su familia, que ahora viaja a Turqu a para enterrarle. Cada uno de ellos carga con sus propios demonios y su particular relato: Emine, la esposa, vive abrumada por dolorosos recuerdos y secretos del pasado; Sevda, la hija mayor, ha alcanzado el xito profesional, pero su vida personal se desmorona; su hermano, Hakan, se esconde tras una m scara y le cuesta afrontar su personalidad; Peri, todav a en la universidad, arrastra sus propios duelos, y mit, a sus quince a os, no puede expresar libremente su amor por otro chico. Las verdades ocultadas y las heridas del pasado irrumpir n en el presente de esta familia y har n tambalear sus fracturados cimientos. En esta premiada novela --que ha sido tambi n finalista del Deutscher Buchpreis, el premio literario m s importante de las letras alemanas--, y con una gran dosis de potencia narrativa, Fatma Aydemir cuestiona la esencia de esta familia de inmigrantes de primera y segunda generaci n, y nos muestra los abismos entre unos padres, unos hijos y unos hermanos que solo anhelan sentirse comprendidos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION After laboring in Germany for thirty years, H seyin uses his hard-earned savings to purchase a sunny and spacious flat in Istanbul, envisioning the joys of retirement in his home country with his wife, Emine, by his side. But in a cruel twist of fate, he dies of a heart attack on the day he moves in. As H seyin's children and wife travel to Turkey for his funeral, the novel explores their lives and dreams: a teenage son struggling to embrace his sexuality; a college-educated daughter desperate to align conflicting facets of her identity; a first-born son racialized and profiled all his life, forced to perform a role he could not choose for himself; a lonely daughter left behind in rural Turkey who dreams of recapturing her family's love after joining them in Germany as a teenager; and a mother unable to break free from the cycles of violence that have defined her. In this epic tale, Fatma Aydemir explores the lives of characters who could not be more different from one another--except in their insatiable desires to be understood. Rather than a seamless narrative, the novel circles around suppressed memories, unspoken trauma, and buried pasts. Turning expectations and stereotypes of the immigrant experience on their side, Aydemir shows how we all grapple with power and beauty, the holes in our lives, and the demons that hover just out of sight.

For thirty years, Huseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and their four children. Finally, he has set aside enough to buy an apartment back in Istanbul - a new centre for the family and a place for him to retire. But just as this future is in reach, Huseyin's tired heart gives up. His family rush to him, travelling from Germany by plane and car, each of his children conflicted as they process their relationship with their parents and each other. Reminiscent of Bernardine Evaristo or Zadie Smith, Djinns portrays a family at the end of the 20th century in all its complexity - full of secrets, questions, silence and love.

After labouring in Germany for thirty years, HÜseyin uses his hard-earned savings to purchase a sunny and spacious flat in Istanbul, envisioning the joys of retirement in his home country with his wife, Emine, by his side. But in a cruel twist of fate, he dies of a heart attack on the day he moves in. As HÜseyin’s children and wife travel to Turkey for his funeral, the novel explores their lives and dreams: a teenage son struggling to embrace his sexuality; a college-educated daughter desperate to align conflicting facets of her identity; a first-born son racialized and profiled all his life, forced to perform a role he could not choose for himself; a daughter left behind in rural Turkey who dreams of recapturing her family’s love after joining them in Germany as a teenager; and a mother unable to break free from the cycles of violence that have defined her. In this epic tale, Fatma Aydemir explores the lives of characters who could not be more different from one another—except in their insatiable desires to be understood. Rather than a seamless narrative, the novel circles around suppressed memories, unspoken trauma, and buried pasts. Turning expectations and stereotypes of the immigrant experience on their side, Aydemir shows how we all grapple with power and beauty, the holes in our lives, and the demons that hover just out of sight.

Unohtumaton ja moniääninen perhesaagaHüseyin on viettänyt viimeiset vuosikymmenet Saksassa, ja nyt hänen suurin unelmansa on toteutunut: hän on ostanut oman asunnon Istanbulista. Kuitenkin muuttopäivänään hän kuolee sydänkohtaukseen, ja koko perhe matkustaa Turkkiin hautajaisiin. Jinnit on perhesaaga, joka kertoo kuudesta henkilöstä, jotka eivät voisi olla erilaisempia mutta jotka sattuvat olemaan sukua toisilleen. Jos kaikki perheet ovat pelkkää tarinoiden kudelmaa, mitä siinä olevat aukot kertovat? Tarvitsemmeko niitä, koska emme pysty kohtaamaan totuutta kokonaisuudessaan? Vai romahduttavatko ne lopulta kaiken? Jinnit esittää nämä kysymykset voimalla ja kauneudella ja pureutuu syvälle paitsi menneisiin vuosikymmeniin myös pitkälle tulevaisuuteen. Romaanin kuusi kertojaa kantavat kukin omaa taakkaansa: salaisuuksia, haluja, haavoja. Heitä yhdistää kuitenkin tunne, että joku kuolleen Hüseyinin asunnossa tarkkailee heitä. Fatma Aydemir (s. 1986) on saksalainen kirjailija ja toimittaja, joka asuu Berliinissä. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Ellbogen (2017) keräsi useampia palkintoja. Jinnit on hänen toinen romaaninsa.

I Fatma Aydemirs fortælling om familien Yilmaz bringes tre generationers følelser under højtryk, da slægtshemmeligheder afsløres i en veldrejet spejling af det 20. århundredes europæiske indvandrerhistorie. 1999: I tredive år har Hüseyin arbejdet i Tyskland, og nu kan han endelig opfylde sin drøm og købe en smuk, moderne lejlighed i Istanbul. Men den dag han skal flytte ind, falder han om og dør af et hjerteanfald. Og nu må hans kone Emine og deres fire børn Hakan, Perihan, Ümit og Sevda rejse fra Tyskland til moderlandet Tyrkiet for at begrave ham. Fatma Aydemirs store roman er fortællingen om seks fundamentalt forskellige mennesker, der tilfældigvis er i familie med hinanden. Alle bærer de på hemmeligheder, længsler og sår på sjælen, men det, der forener dem, er følelsen af, at nogen holder øje med dem i Hüseyins lejlighed i Istanbul. Ånder handler om familie, både den der var, er og bliver, den der taler sandt og holder hemmeligheder, om Vestens moderne historie og Europas håbefulde 70’ere og svigtende selvtillid i begyndelsen af det 21. århundrede