Mithu Sanyal - Lesung

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Mithu Sanyal - Reading
"Antichristie"

London 2022, the Queen is dead! Durga runs past the mourners: international screenwriter, daughter of an Indian and a German, and full of 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.

Mithu Sanyal was born in Düsseldorf in 1971 and is a cultural scientist, author, journalist and critic. Her non-fiction book "Vulva. The Invisible Sex" was published in 2009 and "Rape. Aspects of a crime". In 2021, Hanser published her first novel "Identitti", which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and was awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize and the Ernst Bloch Prize 2021.

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