Das Buch von der fehlenden Ankunft

Lina Atfah's poems resemble a dreamlike dance on a razor's edge: Here are verses that, with precise imagery like snapshots, focus on the torn homeland of Syria, on flight, displacement, and crimes. There are sensual poems, steeped in various Arab myths and stories. And above all: a young poetic voice that is unparalleled in its richness of allusion. Nino Haratischwili on Lina Atfah: "Lina finds words for those who have lost them. She searches for a language amidst the silence. She makes tangible for me what has become an abstraction in all its cruelty. She tells stories of her world, which has been marked for destruction.".