You'll live out your lives in a foreign country Gül is warned. But the whole world is foreign
when you're far from your loved ones. The train ride to Germany ushers in the days of
long-awaited letters night-time 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 the blacksmith for scents and colours and fruit. Yet imperceptibly Factory Lane in
this cold incomprehensible country becomes a different kind of home. A novel about how home is
found in many places and yet still eludes us.