Mithu Sanyal »Antichristie«

In the organizer's words:

An event in the series "Literatur zur Zeit". In cooperation with Masala Movement. Moderation: Sonja Hempel.

After the successful debut "Identitti", the new novel by Mithu Sanyal! On the longlist for the German Book Prize 2024

London 2022, the Queen is dead! Running past the mourners is Durga: international screenwriter, daughter of an Indian and a German, and full of an appetite for rebellion and hallucinations. While Mithu Sanyal's celebrated debut "Identitti" dealt with identity politics, "Antichristie" questions colonialism and the violence within us all. Durga is supposed to be working on a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's British crime novels. But suddenly it is 1906, and she meets Indian revolutionaries who are by no means fighting non-violently like Gandhi. And then the first bomb explodes. What would real resistance be in a false world? No one writes as ludicrously, cleverly and lovingly as Mithu Sanyal. "Antichristie" brings the whole world into German-language literature.