tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6791096.post1547280238177544094..comments2024-03-02T22:28:45.521-05:00Comments on Inveresk Street Ingrate: Kismet by Jakob Arjouni (Melville International Crime 2001)Imposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6791096.post-34694659080444640362013-06-23T20:22:28.051-04:002013-06-23T20:22:28.051-04:00I enjoyed in particular the first one (Kismet is t...I enjoyed in particular the first one (Kismet is the fourth): (in German) "Happy Birthday, Türke!" - there is also a good-enough (for German mainstream cinema) film of it, and much of the centre of Frankfurt, the finance centre of Europe, really does look like it is depicted (like York Way, round the back of King's Cross station used to look like a decade or so ago. You wouldn't recognise it now, - all post hotels and expensive bars. Not a street prostitute in sight.)dagginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6791096.post-85259999957150554662013-06-21T09:06:39.234-04:002013-06-21T09:06:39.234-04:00Hi daggi,
long time, no comment ;-)
I only just ...Hi daggi,<br /><br />long time, no comment ;-)<br /><br />I only just discovered that he died after I finished Kismet. I was really surprised because, as you mentioned, he was so young. He was featured on a Mark Lawson radio series on European crime fiction - Foreign Bodies - late last year. It's worth checking out if you have the chance.<br /><br />I've only read his Kayankaya novels. Of the four novels of his I've read, I enjoyed Kismet the most. Probably because of the humour in the novel that is represented in the excerpt from the book that I posted on the blog.<br /><br />Are there any of his other books that you'd recommend? I don't read German so they'd have to be translations.Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6791096.post-77839175190068124692013-06-01T10:41:25.622-04:002013-06-01T10:41:25.622-04:00Jakob Arjouni (real name: Jakob Michelsen) wrote s...Jakob Arjouni (real name: Jakob Michelsen) wrote some wonderful stuff - even if he was actually not 'the voice of <i>Gastarbeiter</i>' many assumed he was.<br /><br />You know he died (fairly young) in January?dagginoreply@blogger.com