The narrator of Feridun Zaimoglu´s second novel is a successless artist who looks full of malice and mockery on the superficiel and shallow world of art galeries, vernissages and the seemingly important artistic bohemiens. His everyday life in this damned world that is falling apart he tries to manage with growing roughness, only really caring for his neighbour „Mongo-Maniac". In his new book Feridun Zaimoglu once again found his own language, intense and powerful.
Feridun Zaimoglu , born in the Anatolian city of Bolu in 1964, has been living in Germany since he was six months old. He writes for Die Welt , Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Zeit , and FAZ . He has received numerous literary prizes. After Leyla and Die Geschichte der Frau , his most recent novel was Bewältigung . His books have been translated into 14 languages.
