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Kerim, a chef by trade, sets out from Iraq's border area on the arduous and dangerous journey to Europe. He has got involved with holy warriors and travelled the country with them, before deciding to flee from their path of violence. Kerim tries to start a new life in Germany and finds his first love in this foreign land. But the past cannot be shaken off. His native country catches up with him when the holy warriors track him down in Germany and punish him for his flight.


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Sherko Fatah, born 1964 in Berlin, spent childhood years in the GDR and moved to West Germany in 1975. He studied philosophy and art history in Berlin. He has been awarded the aspekte-Literaturpreis, the Sonderpreis des Deutschen Kritikerprises für das bemerkenswerteste Prosa-Debüt and the Hilde-Domin-Preis für Literatur im Exil.