The Hamburg crime thriller Schiller Connection begins with the discovery of an identityless corpse on the Alster and the search of the Persian translator and first-person narrator Joseph Ayene for the murderer. In this novel, Shahram Rahimian describes in an amusing way the suffering of people who cannot forget their past and cannot determine their future of their own volition.
prose | 2nd edition 2012 | soft cover | 312 pages
14,80€
The Hamburg crime thriller Schiller Connection begins with the discovery of an identityless corpse on the Alster and the search of the Persian translator and first-person narrator Joseph Ayene for the murderer. In this novel, Shahram Rahimian describes in an amusing way the suffering of people who cannot forget their past and cannot determine their future of their own volition.
| Weight | 304 g |
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| Dimensions | 120 × 190 mm |
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The Persian translator Joseph Ayene is unexpectedly drawn into a mysterious murder when he is assigned to help the Hamburg police investigate the identityless body of a man. Since Chief Inspector Müller cannot remember his name, from now on he will simply be called "the translator". He is soon confronted not only with a tragic family history of the dead man, but also with his own. Not only is he attracted to Müller's daughter, the pathologist Doctor Simone Schmidt, but his relationship with his ex-wife Anne is anything but easy.
Schiller Connection is the interesting novel by Tehran-born Shahram Rahimian. His background knowledge of political events, social problems... he always skilfully incorporates into his novel. The murder itself is basically just a smaller part of the story, since a lot is about the interpersonal relationships of the protagonists. Again and again there are experiences from the past, when Joseph Ayene fought against the Shah Régime as a student. The author has also illustrated actual events from that time. His protagonist is portrayed as a man who is disappointed in life and who doesn't really feel at home in either Germany or Iran. Only the Persian language means home for him. After each chapter, one can read a few stanzas of Schiller's pledge, which Ayene wishes to translate into his language. With this work he tries to break away from Anne, since this relationship is anything but easy. Over time, it got to be too much for me how similar conversations between the two of them went on over and over again. On the one hand he still loves her, but on the other hand he doesn't want to be with her anymore. He wants her as a lover, but no longer as a wife. Anne is angry with him, but she wants him back for herself. It goes back and forth like this throughout the novel. I also got a little tired of the conversations between Inspector Müller and Ayene over time, when Müller, as Simone's father, repeatedly pointed out to him that he shouldn't hurt his daughter and that he corrected it every time. The novel is not uninteresting, but there are some lengths where one could certainly have shortened. In the end, the guarantee is translated, the murder case is solved with a surprise and Joseph Ayene still doesn't know exactly how his love life should go on. So if you are interested in complicated love constellations and human destinies embedded in an interesting story from the time of the Shah regime, you have come to the right place with the novel "Schiller Connection".