Mustafa Can

This is such a moving book. I don't think it has been translated into English but it should be! It is the story of a mother, who moves with her surviving 8 children to join her husband in Sweden where he has been working to provide for his family. They cannot bear to be apart any longer and so she moves from a Kurdish village in Turkey to join him. It is a book about mothers, generations, culture, identity and the longing to go home. Her son Mustafa (the author) describes his attempt to show more understand and find out who his mother really is - while she is gradually dying in Sweden and longing to be back in her village - at home. For him - Sweden is home - to some extent. He describes so well - the feeling of what it means to be from two cultures - to be at home in both and neither. If you understand Swedish or Norwegian - get this book and read it! show less

Åpent og gripende om livet til en innvandrerkvinne i Sverige skildret gjennom hennes journalist-sønn. Bestselger i Sverige.

Can, Güllü, 1938?-2005,Can, Mustafa, 1969-,Bereavement personal narratives,Death personal narratives,Mother-child relations personal narratives,Adult children personal narratives,Communication personal narratives,Social alienation personal narratives,Emigration and immigration personal narratives,Medicine in literature,Invandrare,Biografier,Invandrare Kurdistan Sverige

En vacker beskrivning av en högt älskad mor som levde för sina barn, tätt intill dagarna. Frågan är om någon som inte har Mustafa Cans bakgrund skulle kunna skriva något liknande? Han berättar väldigt levande och innerligt om kärleken till sin mor under hennes sista levnadsår. I detta tema väver han skickligt in sin kurdiska bakgrund och de kurdiska traditionerna, samtidigt som han beskriver den mentala resa som hans far och mor gör då de flyttar från sitt hemland till det show more nya hemlandet Sverige. Jag kan inte annat än le åt alla de svårigheter som Mustafas moder möter i Sverige för han beskriver dem på ett fantastiskt kärleksfullt sätt. Hur använder man egentligen en telefon eller en spis när man aldrig sett något liknande tidigare? show less