German Book Prize: 'Dschinns'

Hüseyin has worked in Germany for thirty years, and now he is finally fulfilling his dream: a condominium in Istanbul. Only to die of a heart attack on the day he moved in. His family travels from Germany to join him at the funeral.

Fatma Aydemir's great social novel tells the story of six fundamentally different people who happen to be related to each other. They all have their own baggage: secrets, desires, wounds. What unites them, however, is the feeling that someone is watching them in Hüseyin's apartment. Full of force and beauty, 'Djinns' asks about the structure of family, looking deep into the history of past decades and far ahead.