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Kismet
Kismet
Kismet
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Kismet

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It all began with a favour. Kayankaya and Slibulsky had wanted to help out Romario, the owner of a small Brazilian restaurant, when he is threatened by extortionists. Then suddenly there were two bodies on the floor of Romario's restaurant, their faces caked in white powder. Kayankaya is troubled by these deaths and decides to find out who the men are, until he himself is pursued by a mafia organisation about whom nothing appears to be known.
Gradually it becomes clear to Kayankaya that he is facing the most brutal and dangerous group of gangsters to have run Frankfurt's station quarter. And then a new assignment comes in: he is to find a woman he has seen in a video film, and who he is convinced was looking at him from the screen.
Kismet is a brilliant novel about organised crime, the fallout from the Balkan wars, and the madness of nationalism from one of Europe's finest crime writers.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherNo Exit Press
Release dateAug 26, 2013
ISBN9781842437759
Kismet
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Jakob Arjouni

Jakob Arjouni is the author of the celebrated Kayankaya novels featuring a Turkish detective in Frankfurt. Titles include Happy Birthday Turk, More Beer, One Man One Murder and Kismet. Magic Hoffmann, a standalone novel was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. His last novel, Brother Kemal, was published by No Exit Press in August 2013.

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    I enjoyed this book and found many original elements in it. Good read!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An enjoyable enough diversion, though it never rises above that. The ending feels simultaneously both a tad predictable, and extremely contrived. (Perhaps the linguistic misunderstanding final revelation feels less forced in the original German?)I don't regret reading it, but I certainly can't see myself ever re-reading it.

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