The slogan “A novel like no other before” has been associated with Navid Kermani’s twelve-hundred-page work “Your Name” since 2011. In the boldly chapterless colossus, the German-Iranian writer had recorded almost everything that had happened, encountered, noticed and flashed through his mind in the previous five years. Some experienced this as an imposition; The majority of the professional reading public, however, felt richly gifted. Which was certainly also due to the fact that Kermani’s mind has been counted among the smartest in the German-speaking world for some time. The excitement didn’t stop for a moment and flowed into numerous books, most recently a wonderful father-daughter dialogue about God. Now follows, with only six hundred pages, “The Alphabet to S”, also announced as a “novel” and as “something that hasn’t been read before”.
Navid Kermani: “The Alphabet to S” – Culture
