 Khemiri's second novel, "" ("Montecore - The Silence of the Tiger"), received the Sveriges Radio Award for Best Swedish Novel of 2007.It was a finalist for the August Prize and translated into more than 20 languages.In the US, "Montecore" was translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles and published by Knopf and the New York Times described the novel as "funny, ambitious and inventive.