Jakob Arjouni, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Other Press $19 (269p) ISBN 978-1-59051-157-2
Fairies promise one wish—but not "immortality, health, money and love"—to each of the wretched, narcissistic protagonists in the first five stories of Arjouni's sardonic new collection. In the title story, a fairy comes to...
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Jakob Arjouni, trans. from the German by Anthea Bell, Melville International Crime (Consortium, dist.), $15 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-935554-23-3
Hard-boiled detective fans should welcome German author Arjouni's U.S. debut, the fourth book in his popular series (Happy Birthday, Turk! etc.) featuring Kemal Kayankaya, a wisecracking Turkish immigrant PI. When a ruthless gang calling itself the...
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Jakob Arjouni, Trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Melville International Crime, $15.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61219-275-8
Spot-on and often beautiful descriptions distinguish the fifth and final Kemal Kayankaya thriller (after Kismet) from Arjouni (1964–2013), in which the Turkish-German PI tackles the Frankfurt underworld—as well as the Frankfurt book world. One day,...
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Jakob Arjouni, Author, Anselm Hollo, Translator Fromm International $19.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-88064-148-7
Like many a translated European crime novel, this American edition comes with overblown references to Chandler and Hammett and is replete with idiosyncratic prose stylings that, whether deliberate or artifacts of the translation from the German,...
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Jakob Arjouni, Author, Anselm Hollo, Translator Fromm International $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88064-170-8
Proving that the classic hard-boiled PI plot can survive-and thrive-in an exotic setting, Arjouni continues his pungent series about the Turkish-German private detective Kemal Kayankaya (introduced in Happy Birthday, Turk!, 1993). Like his creator,...
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