Goethe Book Club reads Pierre Jarawan's "The Storyteller" (2016)

All books can be read in their recent English translations or in the original German; our discussion will be in English. Coordinated by Chris Walker together with Goethe Pop Up Kansas City, the Goethe Book Club focuses on contemporary fiction and will explore experiences and thoughts about the text.

All our selections can be obtained online via most major vendors in hard copy or digital format. You can also borrow a hard copy from the Pop Up Library at the Goethe Pop Up where we hold two copies of each book in German and in English.

“The Storyteller / Am Ende bleiben die Zedern” by Pierre Jarawan

Samir’s parents fled Lebanon to Germany shortly before his birth. When his beloved father disappears without a trace, Samir is eight. Now, twenty years later, he sets off for the land of the cedars to solve the mystery of this disappearance. A family story, touching, surprising and masterfully interwoven with the fate of the Middle East.