Çiğdem Akyol: Geliebte Mutter – Lesung im Rahmen von europa_morgen_land

In the organizer's words:

"A heart-wrenching book about the insatiable longing for freedom. I could hardly put it down." Fatma Aydemir

When Aynur is married to Alvin, the tulips are blooming in Istanbul. Aynur is 19 years old, likes to wear flared pants and fitted blouses and has nothing but derision for women wearing headscarves. Alvin, uneducated and from a pious family, works underground in Germany. Almanya is a promise that has never lured Aynur, but her brother wants her out of the house and she has to comply.

Siblings Meryem and Ada have long since grown up when their father Alvin dies. It is a happy day for them. The wounds inflicted on them by both parents are too deep. Meryem and Ada try to understand the many torn lives of their mother. And to forgive her in the end.

About the author:

Çiğdem Akyol, born 1978 in Herne, studied Eastern European history and international law in Cologne, with stops in Russia. After attending the Berlin School of Journalism, she was an editor at the taz newspaper in Berlin. She then worked as a correspondent for the Austrian news agency APA in Istanbul, from where she also reported on the attempted coup in 2016. The journalist has also reported for Zeit Online, FAZ, NZZ and ntv.de, among others. Her publications include Erdoğan. Die Biografie (Herder, 2016) andDiegespaltene Republik. Turkey from Atatürk to Erdoğan (S. Fischer, 2023). She currently works as an international reporter for the weekly newspaper in Zurich. Her books and texts have been nominated for the Austrian Science Prize, the NDR Non-Fiction Prize and the German Reporter Prize. Geliebte Mutter - Canım Annem, her first novel, was awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize and the Culture Recognition Grant of the Canton of Zurich, was in the top ten of the HOTLIST, and was nominated for the Mara Cassens Prize and the Uwe Johnson Promotion Prize.

Price information:

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