Along the trenches
Along the trenches. A journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan is a travel report by the author Navid Kermani from 2018. Each chapter of the book describes a day from the author's point of view on his journey from Schwerin to Isfahan . Thus, the work is divided into 54 chapters, whereby there are also several stays of several days in one place. The countries that Kermani visits on his trip are Germany , Poland , Lithuania , Belarus , Ukraine , Russia , Georgia , Armenia , Azerbaijan and Iran .
The trip was paid for by Spiegel , which in turn published about a third of the book before the publication date. The publisher CH Beck is the publisher of the entire book . The work temporarily reached number two on the Spiegel bestseller list in the "Hardcover non-fiction book" category.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung positively emphasizes the large number and heterogeneity of Kermani's interlocutors. What is criticized, however, is the author's lack of understanding of the role of the Soviet Union , both as the founder of a common cultural area and as an oppressive state power in the coexistence of its numerous peoples.
Kermani's unusual view of Europe as the peaceful coexistence of different cultures and his thoughts on what “German values” mean in view of the Holocaust are praised by the FAZ .
expenditure
- German: Along the trenches. A journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan. CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71402-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.chbeck.de/kermani-entlang-graeben/product/20516417
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/entlang-den-graeben-das-westdeutsche-staunen-des-navid-kermani-1.3868657
- ↑ https://www.chbeck.de/kermani-entlang-graeben/product/20516417
- ↑ https://www.buchreport.de/bestseller/buch/isbn/9783406714023.htm/
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/entlang-den-graeben-das-westdeutsche-staunen-des-navid-kermani-1.3868657-2
- ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensions/sachbuch/buchkritik-navid-kermani-entlang-den-graeben-15445422.html