Happy Birthday, Turk!
by Arjouni, Jakob
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0880641487
- ISBN 13
- 9780880641487
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Newport Coast, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
JAKOB ARJOUNI was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1964, the son of acclaimed German playwright Hans Gunter Michelson. He wrote numerous books, including the novels Chez Max and Magic Hoffmann , which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. But it is for his series of five mysteries featuring the Turkish immigrant detective Kemal Kayankaya for which he became best known. Bestsellers throughout Europe and the winner of the German Thriller Prize, they have also been turend into wildly popular movies in his home country. Arjouni died from pancreatic cancer at age forty-eight in January 2013. ANSELM HOLLO is the author of more than thirty books, most recently the essay collection Caws & Causeries and Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000 , which received the San Francisco Poetry Center's Book Award for 2001. His translation of Pentii Saarikoski's Trilogy received the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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- Seller
- Bonita (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0880641487.G
- Title
- Happy Birthday, Turk!
- Author
- Arjouni, Jakob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0880641487
- ISBN 13
- 9780880641487
- Publisher
- Fromm Intl
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1993