Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger

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Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger

First edition
Author	Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Original title	Montecore: en unik tiger
Translator
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish
Publisher	Norstedts, Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	2006

Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger (Swedish: Montecore: en unik tiger, lit. 'Montecore: A Unique Tiger') is the second novel by Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. It was published in 2006 and has received several important literary prizes. It was awarded 2006 year's . Later the same year Montecore was nominated for the August literary award. Montecore also received Sveriges Radio's Romanpris award for best Swedish novel 2007. The listener jury’s motivation reads: "Because Jonas Hassen Khemiri leaves his mark on every single word in Montecore in an inspirational “transpiration” of creativity. Montecore is a beautiful, melancholic but also wonderfully funny book that depicts Sweden in a unique light, making it hard to think of anyone who shouldn’t read it."

It was translated into English by .^[1]

Plot[]

In Montecore, the author Jonas Hassen Khemiri receives an e-mail from Kadir, a childhood friend of Jonas’ father. Kadir urges Jonas to write a book about the father, a famous photographer who has disappeared. Kadir's letters are mixed with Jonas’ memories from his own childhood. Inspired by Kadir, he writes a story about coming of age in a country where tolerance and diversity are the bywords of the day, but where racism and xenophobia form part of everyday life.

History[]

The novel has been published in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Italy and was published in the fall of 2010 by Knopf in the US.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

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