Why homeland, I’m renting here
The reading at UIC will be held on November 2 at 3:00 PM.
There will be a second reading with Selim Özdoğan on Thursday, November 3 at 2:00 PM at
Northwestern University, Kresge Hall 2-335
1880 Campus Drive • Evanston IL
Krishna Mustafa is left by Laura because he still hasn’t found his identity. But who has? Either way, Krishna was always easily impressionable, especially by a woman like Laura. He moves from Freiburg to Istanbul in order to meet his father and search for his roots. In a humourous way, prejudices are exposed and cliches uncovered. Situational comedy, gags, puns, overwrought tomfoolery, Islam, absurdities, everything has a place in this satire and gives the novel an outrageous density and multilayeredness. So that one isn’t as dumb as one was before reading the book, it creates an image of Germany, as well as hands out a key to understanding contemporary Turkey.
Selim Özdoğan, son of Turkish parents and born in Cologne in 1971, has written his first satire with this book after living in Istanbul for a half a year. He didn’t meet his father there, but accidentally hit oil while digging too deep searching for his roots. Contemporary Turkey is a bigger riddle to him than Germany.
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