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Zusatztext 77464928 Informationen zum Autor JAKOB ARJOUNI was born in Frankfurt! Germany in 1964! the son of acclaimed German playwright Hans Gunter Michelson. He wrote numerous books! including the novels Chez Max and Magic Hoffmann ! which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. But it is for his series of five mysteries featuring the Turkish immigrant detective Kemal Kayankaya for which he became best known. Bestsellers throughout Europe and the winner of the German Thriller Prize! they have also been turend into wildly popular movies in his home country. Arjouni died from pancreatic cancer at age forty-eight in January 2013. ANSELM HOLLO is the author of more than thirty books! most recently the essay collection Caws & Causeries and Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000 ! which received the San Francisco Poetry Center's Book Award for 2001. His translation of Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy received the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Klappentext "Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes." -Marilyn Stasio! The New York Times Book Review OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district! the local polcie see no need to work overtime. But when the laborer's wife comes to him for help! wise-cracking detective Kemal Kayankaya! a Turkish immigrant himself! smells a rat. The dead man wasn't the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives? The deeper he digs! the more Kayankaya finds that the vitim was a good guy! a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead! and why? On the way to find out! Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes and drug addicts! gets beaten up by anonymous thugs! survives a gas attack! and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat. And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon ... Zusammenfassung “Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.” —Marilyn Stasio! The New York Times Book Review OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district! the local polcie see no need to work overtime. But when the laborer's wife comes to him for help! wise-cracking detective Kemal Kayankaya! a Turkish immigrant himself! smells a rat. The dead man wasn't the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives? The deeper he digs! the more Kayankaya finds that the vitim was a good guy! a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead! and why? On the way to find out! Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes and drug addicts! gets beaten up by anonymous thugs! survives a gas attack! and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat. And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon ... ...
