'There are three ways to face life: put up with it fight or flee.' After eight years in Turkey
Gül leaves her native Anatolia and returns to Germany. Reunited with her husband Fuat she
observes life there from the margins. As age gives her ever deeper insight she sees society
change rapidly and yet her ability to connect to the people around her remains constant. Gül's
life is shaped by the melancholy of separation but with her warm-hearted and accepting outlook
she has learned to endure homesickness and longing. Full of emotions and poetry but told
without sentimentality Selim Özdogan's account of Gül's journey is a tender and moving novel
about home cultural identity and a life between two worlds.
