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A Slap in the Face

Abbas Khider

Engl. (Ind.)

A Slap in the Face
Abbas Khider
Translation: Simon Pare
Kolkata, Seagull Books 2019
192 pages

German

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Abbas Khider
München, Carl Hanser Verlag 2016
219 pages

Karim, the first-person narrator from Iraq is to be deported from Germany, his right to asylum has been revoked. Actually, he wanted to be in France but ended up in Bavaria when he fled Iraq three years ago. Since then, he has had to struggle with forms and asylum shelters. Because nobody has really paid him any attention in the past, and shocked by what he has been told, he manages to get the caseworker to finally listen to him: he ties her to a chair. She needs to understand what it means not to be allowed to live at home or abroad.

Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

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