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Meet Berlin-based, award winning author Fatma Aydemir, in conversation with Anna Metcalfe about her novel Djinns, in association with Peirene Press.
Come along for insights into Fatma's writing process, a lively Q&A as well as excerpts from her new book, Djinns.
Free hot drinks will be available.
Join us at Cheltenham Library, Wednesday 12 February 2025 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Anna Metcalfe
Anna Metcalfe was born in Germany. Her short fiction has been published in The Best of British Short Stories, The Dublin Review and Lighthouse Journal, among other places, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize and the Sunday Times Short Story Award.
Her first book, Blind Water Pass, was published by John Murray in 2016, and her debut novel, Chrysalis, was published in 2023 by Granta. She was selected for the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 2023, which highlights twenty of the most significant British writers under forty. She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.
Djinns
For thirty years, Hüseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and their four children. Finally, he has set aside enough to buy an apartment back in Istanbul – a new centre for his loved ones and a place for him to retire.
But just as this future is in reach, Hüseyin’s tired heart gives up. His family rush to him, travelling from Germany by plane and car, each of his children conflicted as they process their relationship with their parents, and each other. Reminiscent of Bernardine Evaristo or Zadie Smith, Djinns portrays a family at the end of the 20th century in all its complexity: full of secrets, questions, silence and love.
