Everything I Don't Remember

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Everything I Don't Remember
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First edition
Author Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Audio read by Hamadi Khemiri
Original titleAllt jag inte minns
TranslatorRachel Willson-Broyles
Cover artistMoa Schulman
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Set in Stockholm, Sweden
Publisher Albert Bonniers Förlag
Publication date
31 August 2015
Published in English
2016
Pages334
Awards August Prize (2015)
ISBN 9789100151041
OCLC 920634563
839.73/8
LC Class PT9877.21.H46 A79 2015

Everything I Don't Remember (Swedish: Allt jag inte minns) is a 2015 novel by Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Main characters are Samuel, Laide, Vandad, and "The Panther". The book is a reconstruction of the last years of Samuel's life, before his death in a car crash. In the book, the author transcribed his interviews with Laide, Vandad, "The Panther" and other people who he came across, for example his grandmother's neighbour and also a nurse who assisted said grandmother. At the end of the book, the reader understands that the author chose to write this book as a way to cope with a loss of his own. It won the August Prize in 2015 [1]

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References

  1. "Allt jag inte minns" (in Swedish). Augustpriset.