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2. Ett öga rött, by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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thette.livejournal.com(The first book I read for this challenge was Kindred.)
Ett öga rött (One Eye Red) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a brilliant book. It's the diary of fifteen year old Tunisian immigrant Halim, written in a carefully broken Swedish.
When his mother died, Halim's father decided to move from one of the immigrant suburbs into central Stockholm, so Halim can get a better education and better chances in life. Halim is bristling with teenage anger and trying to find his identity.
One of the reasons I loved this book is that Halim really reads like a teenager (and a very unreliable narrator, at that). ( Cut for language )
If you don't have a problem with that, I'd recommend this book. It's available in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Serbian and German. (Translation rights to English are sold, but I can't find an actual translation.)
Ett öga rött (One Eye Red) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a brilliant book. It's the diary of fifteen year old Tunisian immigrant Halim, written in a carefully broken Swedish.
When his mother died, Halim's father decided to move from one of the immigrant suburbs into central Stockholm, so Halim can get a better education and better chances in life. Halim is bristling with teenage anger and trying to find his identity.
One of the reasons I loved this book is that Halim really reads like a teenager (and a very unreliable narrator, at that). ( Cut for language )
If you don't have a problem with that, I'd recommend this book. It's available in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Serbian and German. (Translation rights to English are sold, but I can't find an actual translation.)
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