Screen (detective novel)
Canvas is a detective novel by Feridun Zaimoglu from 2003. It was published by Rotbuch-Verlag and received the Klagenfurt Jury Prize in the year it was published .
Zaimoglu is a passionate painter, which is reflected in both the title and other details of the novel. The book is designed as a crime comedy.
action
Commissioner Seyfeddin Karasu, who is on duty in Kiel, waits after a corpse wrapped in three canvases has been fished from a forest lake while barbecuing on the bank there for clues that could help solve the case. The unloved new intern is a little surprised at the methods used by the German-Turkish. At the lake, however, you get closer.
Reviews
In a friendly review of the book in the Tagesspiegel, Steffen Kraft described the Turkish main character in the novel as "having settled in well in Germany." He even accepted the latent racism of his colleagues and during the interrogation he liked to refer to black people as "bulging lips" ": Sebastian Domsch from the FAZ, on the other hand, criticized Zaimoglu's work as a possible crime scene script and recommended that the novel be subjected to a" thorough revision ". The work is unsuitable even for “serious crime thriller”: the author has lost sight of the plot and the tension curve due to the committed elaboration of enjoyable passages.