Fikri Anil Altintas - Lesung und Gespräch

An adult son loses his mother. In the weeks leading up to her death, everyday life sets the rhythm: cooking, waiting in hospital corridors, hoping and mourning. Stories creep into everyday life, the ones that have always been told and the ones that shine through behind them. What does the son, at home in Germany, know about his mother's youth in Turkey? While Anil and his family in the present try to understand the impact their mother's approaching death has had on them, Mürüvvet, the woman his mother once was, searches for ways back to life in Aydin in western Turkey in 1973. In the midst of political upheaval, she does everything she can to stop her father from taking her to Germany. She fears for her dreams, until the thought of Germany will no longer let her go.

A novel about saying goodbye to Turkey and making a new start in Germany, about the often unbearable distance to those closest to you - and about the desperate desire to catch up with love.