Drei Kameradinnen [Sisters in Arms]
2021
Kiepenheuer&Witsch
About the book
Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
Release: 15.04.2021
English title: Sisters in Arms
352 pages
ISBN: 978-3-462-05276-3
Rights sold to
Croatia: Fraktura / World English rights: Scribe Publications / Italy: Fandango / Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam / Turkey: Hep Kitap
An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2021
Recommended by New Books in German (Spring 2021)
English sample translation by Ruth Martin available
70,000 copies sold of the author's debut novel
Film Rights under option "die film gmbh"
Synopsis
Hani, Kasih, and Saya have shared a deep friendship ever since they were kids growing up together in the projects. After years, the three young women meet again for a few days to pick up where they left off. But regardless of where they are or what they achieve, it becomes clear again and again that they can’t escape the everyday racism that accompanies their daily lives: the glances, chatter, hatred, and outright rightwing terror. But their friendship gives them stability. Until one dramatic night shakes everything up.
Shida Bazyar shows what it means to be questioned, constantly and everywhere, because of one’s origins, but also how violence and ignorance can be met with solidarity. Drei Kameradinnen is a stirring, uncompromising, and touching novel about the extraordinary alliance between three young women and the only thing that makes a self-determined life possible in a society that doesn’t tolerate otherness: unconditional friendship.
"Shida Bazyar is a talented author whose writing will appeal to fans of Elena Ferrante, Zadie Smith and Kamila Shamsie. […] Sisters in Arms is an immersive and thought-provoking read with a strong plot and relatable characters, and which explores urgent contemporary questions around racism and sexism in society." - New Books in German
"Bazyar's narrative has an urgency that takes our breath away." - 54books.com
"Shida Bazyar's second, impressively constructed novel is an uncompromising, feminist, and exposing book about solidarity, platonic love, despair, and the painful present. (...)" - Anschläge
About the author
Shida Bazyar, born in 1988, studied literary writing in Hildesheim, and, in addition to writing, worked in youth education for many years. Her debut novel Nachts ist es leise in Teheran came out in 2016, won the Blogger Literary Award, Ulla Hahn Prize, and Uwe Johnson Prize, among other awards, and has been translated into Dutch, Farsi, French and Turkish.
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