Gül is warned that she will live out her life in a foreign country, but the train ride to Germany brings long-awaited letters, night-time telephone calls, and blissful summers back home. She will learn longing for her two daughters, her father, scents, colours, and fruit, and Factory Lane becomes a different kind of home.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 01 April 2022
Publisher: V & Q Books

Gül's Journey to Germany

Gül is warned that she will live out her life in a foreign country, but the whole world is foreign when she is far from her loved ones. The train ride to Germany ushers in the days of long-awaited letters, nighttime telephone calls, and blissful summers back home. The years of hard work will flow like water before her house in Turkey is built and she can return. Until then, there will be fireworks, young love, and the cassette tapes of the summer played on repeat. In these years, Gül will learn all kinds of longing: for her two daughters, for her father, for scents, colors, and fruit. Yet Factory Lane in this cold, incomprehensible country becomes a different kind of home.

The Novel

Gül's Journey to Germany is a novel about how home is found in many places. The author of "The Blacksmith's Daughter" (9783863912949) writes an honest, urgent, and emotional story that quietly stimulates the readers' thoughts and portrays the hard work behind seeing a new country as home. Augsburger Allgemeine recommends the novel, saying it is "absolutely recommended" and that it quietly stimulates the readers' thoughts and portrays the hard work behind seeing a new country as home. Migazin also recommends the novel, saying it is "an absolutely recommended novel that quietly stimulates the readers' thoughts and portrays the hard work behind seeing a new country as home."

Weight: 336g
Dimension: 136 x 199 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783863913281