Dschinns

In the organizer's words:

"And now you've finally made it. You're fifty-nine and the owner. When Ümit finishes school in a few years and you can finally leave Germany, this cold, heartless country, this apartment will be here with your name on the doorbell."

End of the 1990s. An apartment in Istanbul. One death. Hüseyin has worked hard for thirty years in Germany to spend the rest of his life in a condominium. Alone in the apartment, preparing to move in, he dies of a heart attack. The family comes together for the funeral. There are the children Sevda, Hakan, Peri and Ümit and there is Emine, who spent her whole life at Hüseyin's side. But what exactly is a family? Are you really connected just because you have the same parents? What do you know about each other and what not? What are the unspoken things? What is kept secret and yet is always there? In her novel Dschinns, Fatma Aydemir explores what we call family. Again and again, the events of the time play into the narrative, forming the undercurrent of a story that is overwhelming in its intensity. And there is always a sense that everything is determined by dark secrets.