- Hardcover: 183 pages
- Publisher: Fromm Intl (April 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0880641703
- ISBN-13: 978-0880641708
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
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Proving that the classic Hammet/Chandler private eye plot can be enriched in even the most exotic setting, Arjouni continues his pungent series about the Turkish-German detective Kemal Kayankaya. Like his creator, Kayankaya is the son of Turkish guest workers, and he gets very little respect from his adopted country. A client, an "average schmuck from Frankfurt's West End" named Weidenbusch, wants Kayankaya to find his missing Thai ladyfriend, who seems to have been kidnapped by gangsters preying on illegal aliens. But Jakob Arjouni, who has learned from the masters how to turn a story inside out until we almost forgot where we started, has plenty of twisty surprises in store. Arjouni's last Kayankaya mystery, And Still Drink More!, is also a good read.
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The opening of Europe's borders has stirred blatant racism throughout the continent, but it has also presented mystery novelists with a rich source of story ideas. In his third Kemal Kayankaya novel, Arjouni explores the immigration issue as it affects the travails of his Turkish private-eye hero. Despite being a German citizen, Kayankaya feels the sting of otherness wherever he goes in his hometown of Frankfurt, which gives him a moral imperative to solve the case of a missing Thai woman, the victim of a scam in which illegal aliens are lured into buying false papers and then promptly deported. Arjouni develops his human-rights theme with considerable poignance while offering an eye-opening view of the underside of contemporary German society. All this series needs to elevate it to the status of, say, Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers , set in Sweden but mining the same thematic vein, is less reliance on the conventions of the American hard-boiled novel, especially as it affects the character development of his hero. Bill Ott
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Hard-Boiled in Germany, April 14 2000
By A. Ross - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: One Death to Die: A Kayankaya Mystery (Hardcover)
Arjouni's hard-boiled Turkish PI Kemal Kayankaya returns for his third story, this one centered in the world of Germany's "guest workers" and illegal immigrants. Germany's racism is played up in this one, as Kayankaya attempts to find a missing Thai woman. As usual, his wise-assedness gets him into deeper trouble than he really needs. There is a subplot with his best friend, Slibusky, which is a little hard to follow, but for the most part it's the smart, quick, read I've come to expect from Arjouni.
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