At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelistâ€”also named Jonas Hassen Khemiriâ€”is

Montecore

At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelistâ€”also named Jonas Hassen Khemiriâ€”is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish Ã©migrÃ©, come to enjoy such success?

Jonas is fresh off the publication of his first novel when answers to this question come in the form of an unexpected e-mail from Kadir, a lifelong friend of Abbas and an effervescent storyteller with delightfully anarchic linguistic idiosyncrasies. The portrait Kadir paints of Abbasâ€”from a voluntarily mute boy who suffers constant night terrors, to a soulful young charmer, to a Swedish immigrant and political exileâ€”proves to be vastly different from Jonasâ€™s view of his father. As the two jagged versions reconcile in Kadir and Jonasâ€™s impassioned correspondence, weâ€™re given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and feverishly imagined.

With an arresting blend of humor and wit, Montecore marks the stateside arrival of an already acclaimed international novelist. Winner of the PO Enquist Literary Prize for accomplished European novelists under forty, Jonas Hassen Khemiri has created a world that is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-03-01
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307270955

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-03-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307270955

Montecore

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