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Tomorrow is Now: Speeches

Navid Kermani

Navid Kermani has elevated the genre of the speech to an art. His work is admired all around Germany, not only his celebrated speech at the Bundestag about Germany’s constitution or his moving acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at St Paul’s Church in Frankfurt. Again and again he has surprised, enlightened, challenged and touched his listeners and stimulated debate. The book brings together Kermani’s most significant speeches of the last twenty years granting new life to one of literature’s oldest genres.

How to accept a prize that had initially been withdrawn? How to declare one’s love for America, just after Trump has been elected? What can a German with Iranian roots have to say about Auschwitz? What words remain at one’s father’s grave? And can someone from Cologne speak objectively about Cologne’s football team, 1. FC Kölln? Kermani takes on difficult questions and invites his listeners to give up established ways of thinking. His unique way of bringing together classical German literature, Islamic mysticism, American counterculture and European spirit opens up surprising and gripping avenues of thought in every single speech. 

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