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, born in Iran in 1952, has lived in Germany since he was fifth. He studied economics in Frankfurt and worked in various functions in German and international development cooperation. Djafari has written numerous specialist articles and book contributions on the economic and political challenges in developing and emerging countries. "A week, a life" was his first novel.

Modertion: Lothar Ruske

Organizer: conceivable e.v.

Admission is free – donations are requested