Dein Name

A book of life, a book of the dead. A meditation on the sacred and the struggles of everyday life. The story of a difficult marriage and a grandfather in Isfahan. The history of Iran and the present of Europe. War and peace, today. A deep dive into German Romanticism, but also into rock music and Catholic art. A record of the days of a writer named Navid Kermani. And time and again ecstasy and despair. Yet everything, and this is the wonder of this book, becomes part of a single life, intertwining and consuming itself into an unheard-of image of our reality now, speaking directly to each individual reader. For we are all many. And we all perish. Your Name is a novel like no other. Awarded the Kleist Prize and the Joseph Breitenbach Prize.