The Dansker Trilogy

Inspired by the life of the author's father in the 60s-90s, The Trilogy Dansker, bringing together the three volumes Deserter, Cockroach and Dansker, tells the story the story of a man of Turkish origin with a hazardous destiny, guided too often by bad choices. While still tempestuous and rebellious, Halfdan Pisket's father finds himself in prison for desertion, suffering torture and seizures epilepsy where memories of his native village are mixed. Freed from these much-feared prisons, he hastened to flee Turkey for far away Denmark, in order to forget a past that was too painful. But earning a living honestly in a foreign country becomes very complicated for an immigrant who faces administrative and financial difficulties and ambient racism. Having contracted debts that he cannot repay, he gradually sinks into in drug trafficking and crime...