reading & Conversation with Nassir Djafari – “The Great Cousin”

Abbé, 62 years old, a successful Frankfurt businessman and cosmopolitan, sees himself as German. His Iranian roots are buried. One day, when a distant relative who had just arrived from Iran visits him, his life is thrown into disarray. The visitor is inscrutable, entangled in contradictions and stumbles from one emergency to the next. Soon Abbe's life only revolves around his relative's problems. Only gradually does the young man's true story become clear to him and he begins to see him and himself through different eyes.

Nassir Djafari, 1952 in Iran geboren, lebt seit seinem fünften Lebensjahr in Deutschland. Er studierte in Frankfurt Volkswirtschaftslehre und war in verschiedenen Funktionen in der deutschen und internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit tätig. Djafari hat zahlreiche Fachartikel und Buchbeiträge über die wirtschaftlichen und politischen Herausforderungen in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern verfasst. „Eine Woche, ein Leben“ war sein erster Roman.

Modertion: Lothar Ruske

Veranstalter: Denkbar e.V.

Admission is free – donations are requested