Jonas Hassen Khemiri, trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Atria, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3802-7
Khemiri (Montecore) won Sweden’s most prestigious literary honor, the August Prize, for this compelling novel about Samuel, who was born in Sweden but is of North African descent, and whose last day alive is reconstructed by an unnamed narrator who...
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri, trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles, Knopf, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-27095-5
Khemiri's inventive, tricky tale charts a Tunisian immigrant's rise from poor orphan to world-famous photographer. The hero, it's suggested, is actually Khemiri's father—and the author seems to know little about the man's life, despite his father's...
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (656p) ISBN 978-0-374-61889-6
Khemiri (The Family Clause) follows three sisters and their childhood friend, a fellow Swedish Tunisian named Jonas, over decades in this wondrous novel. The Mikkola girls’ distinct personalities are evident from the opening scene of a Y2K New Year’s
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri, trans. from the Swedish by Alice Menzies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-13432-7
Khemiri (Everything I Don’t Remember) repeats phrases, assembles lists, and stacks up a family’s disappointments in this surprisingly satisfying novel set over the course of a single week. A man, referred to as “a son who is a father,” threatens to...
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