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Agri Ismail is a successful published Kurdish author.

He is based in Sweden. In addition to being an author, he has also worked as a corporate lawyer in Dubai, Iraqi Kurdistan, and London.

His debut novel came out in 2024 and is titled Hyper. He has also written other things and has had the distinction of his work being featured in such publications as The Rumpus, The White Review, Guernica, The Lifted Brow, Asymptote, and others.

Agri’s work “Haunted Home” won him the 2016 Stack Award for best nonfiction for The Outpost. The author was also longlisted for the 2017/2018 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.

Hyper is a 2024 book by Agri Ismail. It is a very modern and cutting saga that goes into such universal themes as survival, family, and money. It is a book that is ideal for readers who are fans of the works from Patricia Lockwood, Zadie Smith, and Mohsin Hamid.

Rafiq Hardi Kermanj is the founder of Kurdistan’s communist party. But on the eve of the 1979 Revolution, he decides to flee Iran with his young family and make his way to London.

Now it has been thirty years since that happened, and his children are doing their best to try and make their own futures in the structures of 21st century capitalism, which can often be as ruthless as they are alienating.

Mohammad is the oldest son and he is doing what he can to try and make it and survive the world of London finance, where the competition is fierce and the world itself is very cutthroat. Siver is the only daughter and she makes her way out of a marriage without love in order to try and raise her daughter in Dubai selling haute couture at a luxury mall to customers in an attempt to make ends meet.

Meanwhile, Laika is someone who is terminally online and also happens to be one of those hacker genius people that you hear about. He ends up taking a risk and gambling with fate when he comes up with an algorithm that is able to mirror the trading activity of Goldman Sachs perfectly.

Even though the circumstances are very different, the Hardis are drawn together by the collective obsession with money that they have as well as their efforts to try and find identity and meaning within the isolation of modern immigrant life.

A family story and also full of satire that is sharper than sharp, this is a description of life in the 21st century, which makes this debut author one of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature to come along in a long while. Check out this book and see what you think by getting your hands on a copy of Hyper by Agri Ismail!