Our heroine is called Fajr and Aube – she uses two names and two languages. One for the outside world and one reserved for herself and her unwanted, unborn child, whom she calls Houri – Houri like the virgins in paradise. Aube has been mute since her throat was cut at the age of five. She therefore only tells her story to Houri. In an intense inner monologue, Daoud’s novel explores the unresolved trauma and silence surrounding the Algerian civil war.
With Kamel Daoud
Moderated and consecutive translation by Tilla Fuchs
Read by Meike Rötzer
The event will be held in French with consecutive translation into German.
Houris was translated from French into German by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller.