Montecore (Signed First Edition)

Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author), Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0307270955 / ISBN 13: 9780307270955

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2011

About this Item

New York: Knopf [2011]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated by him in the month of publication, April 2011. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. All books shipped in sturdy boxes. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. Khemiri was born in Sweden in 1978. His first novel, One Eye Red, received the Boras Tidning Award for best literary debut. His second, Montecore, won several literary awards including the Swedish Radio Award for best novel of the year. Khemiri has also received the PO Enquist Literary Prize for the most promising young European writer. He currently divides his time between Stockholm and Berlin, and thus signed copies are difficult to find in the USA. This is his American debut.

Seller Inventory # 04-2011-PP32

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Montecore (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307270955
• ISBN 13: 9780307270955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist—also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri—is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish émigré, come to enjoy such success?

Jonas is fresh off the publication of his first novel when answers to this question come in the form of an unexpected e-mail from Kadir, a lifelong friend of Abbas and an effervescent storyteller with delightfully anarchic linguistic idiosyncrasies. The portrait Kadir paints of Abbas—from a voluntarily mute boy who suffers constant night terrors, to a soulful young charmer, to a Swedish immigrant and political exile—proves to be vastly different from Jonas’s view of his father. As the two jagged versions reconcile in Kadir and Jonas’s impassioned correspondence, we’re given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and feverishly imagined.

With an arresting blend of humor and wit, Montecore marks the stateside arrival of an already acclaimed international novelist. Winner of the PO Enquist Literary Prize for accomplished European novelists under forty, Jonas Hassen Khemiri has created a world that is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating.

About the Author

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in Sweden in 1978, is the author of two novels and one collection of plays and short stories. His first novel, One Eye Red, received the Boras Tidning Award for best literary debut. His second, Montecore, won several literary awards including the Swedish Radio Award for best novel of the year. Khemiri has also received the PO Enquist Literary Prize for the most promising young European writer. He currently divides his time between Stockholm and Berlin.