City of Jasmine

Informationen zum Autor Olga Grjasnowa  was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Her debut novel  Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt  ( All Russians Love Birch Trees ) was awarded the Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize and the Anna Seghers Prize.  City of Jasmine  is her third novel. Olga Grjasnowa lives with her family in Berlin. Klappentext Part of Oneworld's Creative Europe project. A Parisian surgeon returns to Syria to renew his passport and is forbidden return to Paris, energising him against the Syrian regime. Meanwhile, protester Amal and her boyfriend Youssef head out for Germany, only to find their problems are far from over. Shortlisted for the 2018 Text and Sprache. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes* Zusammenfassung A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus

Product details

• Authors: Olga Grjasnowa
• Assisted by: Katy Derbyshire (Translation), Derbyshire Katy (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781786074874
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-487-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / War & Military, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, HISTORY / General, Syria, Fiction in translation, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship, Refugees and political asylum, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, HISTORY / Middle East / Syria