A writer writes about his teenage love. She stands before him after a reading, in the meantime she has become an attractive woman - but is married as well.
Even after thirty years, the I-narrator and writer in Navid Kermani's novel "Sozusagen Paris" still yearns for his first love Jutta. He writes a whole book about their relationship and gives readings. Until Jutta stops by after an event. She is now married and invites him to a meeting. They drink wine and talk about love. A book about the challenge of perceiving a loved one with the eyes as well as with the memories.
© Julian Baummann
Navid Kermani (* 1967) lives as a freelance writer in Cologne. He is a habilitated Orientalist and was a Long Term Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. For his scientific and literary work he was, among other prizes, awarded the Kleist Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize. He is a member of the German Academy of Language and Literature and the German Islam Conference. In 2015, Kermani received the Peace Prize of the Deutscher Buchhandel.
© Carl Hanser Verlag
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