LESUNG & GESPRÄCH mit Jegana Dschabborowa

In the organizer's words:

• Admission 19:00, start at 19:30
• There are about 25 seats. It's worth being on time, because the best seats are of course right at the front. :)
• Moderation by Silvi Feist from the podcast "Feiste Bücher"(@feiste.buecher.podcast) & Henrike Schmidt (interpreter)
• We have a book table & Jegana signing!

About the book "The hands of the women in my family were not meant for writing"
translated from Russian by Maria Rajer

"An unmarried, innocent girl can easily be distinguished from a married woman: The first and most important difference is the eyebrows." The Azerbaijani community, which lives in the diaspora in Russia, is strictly conservative. Even as a child, the narrator finds it difficult to fit into the patriarchal Muslim society. An illness both forces and frees her from her role as a beautiful, marriageable daughter ...
Jegana Dschabbarowa shows us a hidden world in her first novel. She tells her own story and that of the women in her family directly and through her body, astounding us with the elegance and poetic power of her storytelling. zsolnay.at

Many thanks to the S. Fischer Foundation and Dialogbüro Vienna for supporting the evening!