In his last major novel, Sankofa (Sujet Verlag), which is now published posthumously, Doğan Akhanlı (1957–2021) draws a wide arc from persecuted opposition figures in an Anatolian village to Cologne at the time of the NSU murders to the USA during Black Lives Matter demos. The translator Recai Hallaç and the writer Gerrit Wustmann talk about the novel and its author. In all her twenty-six years, she had never heard her husband say anything political. In fact, the first lieutenant had between himself and…

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