Reading with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

Ministerium der Träume: “When the police arrive at her door, Nas' world comes crashing down: Her sister Nushin is dead. Car accident, say the officers. Suicide, Nas is convinced. Together they have survived everything: their migration to Germany, the loss of their father, the emotional absence of their mother, Nushin's unplanned motherhood. Although a child does not fit into her life, Nas takes her niece in. Even when she finds out that Nushin had secrets, Nas swallows the betrayal, giving her all to reconstruct her sister's story – she realizes that Nushin would never have abandoned her. "Ministry of Dreams" is a novel about a family you choose and the one you are forced into. It’s a debut about the unconditional solidarity among siblings, a debut that also penetrates the dark corners of contemporary Germany.“ (Yaghoobifarah, translated by Christian Schuetz)

HENGAMEH YAGHOOBIFARAH was born in Kiel (Germany) in 1991. Hengameh studied Media Culture and Scandinavian Studies at University of Freiburg and Linköping University. Since 2014, Hengameh works as an editor at Missy Magazine and as a freelance journalist. Hengameh’s texts have appeared in SPEX, an.schläge, and Hengameh’s column “Habibitus” appears in the German daily newspaper Die Tageszeitung.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.

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