Everything sad is untrue / Jugendbuch Englisch / Daniel nayeri

Auch wenn niemand in der Schule glaubt, was Khosrou erzählt, sind diese Geschichte nicht nur wahr sondern Teil seiner Biografie. 

Einen dokumentarischen Kurzfilm über das Leben des Autors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNuhG7_hLo&feature=youtu.be 

Für Jugendliche ab 14 Jahren. 

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At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much.

But Khosrou’s stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy…and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan.

We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).

It is Daniel’s.

“A modern masterpiece — as epic as the “Iliad” and “Shahnameh,” and as heartwarming as “Charlotte’s Web.” It’s for the kids at the lunch table; the heroes of tomorrow, just looking to survive the battle of adolescence.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Supple, sparkling and original…” —The Wall Street Journal

“Groundbreaking…”—TODAY.com

© Levine Querido.