Maren Amini’s highly anticipated debut “Ahmadjan and the Hoopoe” was awarded the Berthold Leibinger Foundation’s Comic Book Prize in 2023.
Good stories are like treasure
In 1972, young Ahmadjan Amani travels from Afghanistan to Germany. He wants to be an artist, and almost ten years later he becomes the father of the author.
What follows is a colorful zig-zag path, a profoundly moving life between art and war, homeland and new beginnings, flight from strife and responsibility for family members left behind in Afghanistan. Through it all, he never stops searching for happiness. Based on the 800-year-old Persian saga The Conference of the Birds by Farududdin Attar, the author also portrays the confrontation with one’s own identity.
▪ A prize-winning work even before its publication
▪ Gripping, touching, humorous biography
▪ Afghanistan’s politics from a personal aspect
