Venice Requiem

Khalid Lyamlahy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2026
HopeRoad (Verlag)
978-1-913109-38-7 (ISBN)

Infos

On the 22nd of January 2017, Pateh Sabally, a twenty-two-year-old Gambian refugee living in Italy since 2015, arrives in Venice from Milan. He leaves his backpack near the Scalzi Bridge, puts his train ticket and residence permit in a plastic pouch, and then plunges into the cold waters of the Grand Canal, amidst the gaze of onlookers and tourists. As he drowns, some insult him, while others shout "Africa". Outraged by this tragic death, the novel’s narrator, a young writer based in Paris, follows Pateh’s trail aiming to piece together and understand the sequence of events leading up to his death. Venice Requiem tells the story of a Venice where literature grapples with the pressing dramas of our time. Throughout the novel, the narrator quotes authors who lived in or wrote about Venice: Goldoni, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Lord Byron, Marcel Proust, and others. Through a dialogue with the writings and experiences of these authors, the novel explores the potential of literature to rescue humanity.

Autor

Khalid Lyamlahy, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1986, is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago, where he teaches North African literature. He completed a PhD in Francophone Studies at Oxford, and is the author of Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco (Liverpool University Press, 2025). His first novel, Un roman étranger, was published in 2017. Venice Requiem is his first translation in English.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2024
• Übersetzer: Ros Schwartz
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-913109-38-0 / 1913109380
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913109-38-7 / 9781913109387
• Zustand: Neuware