Hyper by Agri Ismaïl, Albert Bonniers Förlag
Contributed by Daniela Juvall on Oct 22nd, 2025. Artwork published in
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When Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his family, they suffer the shame of penury and migration layered on Kurdish statelessness. Agri Ismail’s electrifying debut novel follows the lives of Rafiq’s three children and their increasingly desperate relationship to money.
The Swedish edition of Agri Ismaïl’s novel was published by Albert Bonniers Förlag in 2024.
