The Solace of the Night Sky
by (bosnia And Herzegovina) Jevad Karahassan
About This Novel
Jawad Karahassan, winner of the German Goethe Prize in 2020, has a literary adventure comparable to "One Thousand and One Nights". He read 700 pages of the novel in one go and still couldn't put it down. The personal and the political, the heroic and the delicate, the confusing murder and the rise and fall of the Seljuk Empire. "The Solace of the Night Sky" was published in 2015 (Bosnian) and translated into German in 2016, making waves in the German literary translation community. This three-part novel is based on real people and tells the story of a thousand-year history of Islamic civilization. The protagonist Omar Khayyam lived between the 11th and 12th centuries AD and was a famous mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet in Persia; his two best friends in his youth were Nizam Mulk and Hasan Sabah. One was the prime minister of Malik Shah Sultan and had great power, while the other founded the famous Assassin sect and became a bandit leader who spread fear through assassination activities. Khayyam himself is indifferent to fame and wealth, and has few desires. He only has a soft spot for the vast night sky and the truth hidden behind it. As a royal scholar, he witnessed the rise and fall of the Seljuk Empire in his turbulent life, and also witnessed the most shining figures and legends in that turbulent history.
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