Jonas Hassen Khemiri Books in Order

The name Abulkasem passes through a shifting series of voices, stories, and identities. Khemiri's play uses that elusive figure to examine racial suspicion, the construction of threatening stereotypes, and the assumptions people bring to language and belonging.

A young novelist receives a proposal from a stranger claiming to know his estranged father. Their correspondence reconstructs the father’s journey from Tunisia to Sweden, but conflicting memories turn the proposed biography into a struggle over identity and who controls a family’s story.

After a car bombing, Amor wanders a city gripped by fear, trying to behave normally and avoid suspicion. Over twenty-four hours, his calls, memories, and anxious thoughts blur the boundaries between imagined danger and the life around him.

After Samuel dies in a car crash, a writer interviews the people who knew him to reconstruct his last day. Their competing accounts of friendship, love, and estrangement turn the search into a puzzle of memory and possible betrayal.

A grandfather returns to Sweden under an arrangement that keeps his residency intact through visits to his son. Over ten tense days, family members confront old losses, new decisions, and the question of whether their obligations can be renegotiated.