Everything I Don't Remember

THE TOP TEN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the August Prize for Fiction Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man''s death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man dies in a car crash - accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel''s story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, contrived poser, loyal friend. But who was Samuel really, and what happened to him? In filling out the contours of his existence, the writer grasps at a fundamental question: how do we account for the substance of a life? ''My books of the year [include] Jonas Hassen Khemiri''s enigmatic novel'' Joyce Carol Oates Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Its chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth’ Hari Kunzru ''Unforgettable. In this non-putdownable puzzle of a story, Khemiri manages to both thrill and break your heart'' Gary Shteyngart ''Khemiri''s audacious and richly drawn novel pushes the boundaries of literary fiction . . . Beneath the structural pyrotechnics lies a broader story of imposition, appropriation and lack of individual agency: that of the immigrant experience'' Lucy Scholes, The National

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Rachel Willson-Broyles
• Assisted by: Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translation), Willson-Broyles Rachel (Translation)
• Publisher: Scribner UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781471155109
• ISBN: 978-1-4711-5510-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Schwedische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary