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Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man dies in a car crash - accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, contrived poser, loyal friend. But who was Samuel really, and what happened to him?

An addictive novel about contemporary parenthood and modern family life. A grandfather returns home from abroad to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather, the proud patriarch, is perfect - at least, according to himself. Over the course of 10 intense days, the relationships of this chaotic and entirely normal family unfold and painful memories resurface. Something has to give. But the son is duty-bound to his father through an arrangement they call ‘the father clause’.

At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals and political luminaries gathered to toast his 50th birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish emigre, come to enjoy such success?

Da 26-årige Samuel kører ind i et træ, efterlader han sig flere åbne spørgsmål. Hvad skete der fx egentlig mellem ham, vennen Vandad og kæresten Leila? Hvorfor sidder Vandad i dag i fængsel, mens Leila er flygtet til udlandet? Hvorfor står Samuels mormors hus i brand? Og var hans død et hændeligt uheld eller et selvmord?

"Farklausulen" er en rørende og personlig roman om familiehemmeligheder, blodets bånd og generationskløfter, om kærlighed og svigt, og den krævende øvelse det er at være en familie, trods alt. En far vender tilbage til Sverige for at hilse på familien, som han ikke har set i lang tid. Datteren er gravid med den forkerte mand, hans neurotiske søn er selv blevet far, og nu ønsker han, at faren som er blevet farfar skal tage vare på sig selv. Den allerede indgåede farklausul skal genforhandles. Men er det muligt? Ikke uden krig.