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Please note that this month’s selection is available only in German.
About the novel:
© Carl Hanser Verlag
Ellbogen by Fatma Aydemir (German only)
272 pages, published 2018.
“She's seventeen. She was born in Berlin. Her name is Hazal Akgündüz. She could very well grow up to be an ordinary adult--except that her parents, who immigrated from Turkey, feel foreign in Germany. And Hazal is making fatal errors in her search for a home. First, it's just a stolen lipstick. Then blunt force. When the police are after her, Hazal flees to Istanbul, where she has never been before. Warm-hearted and wild, Fatma Aydemir tells of the many people who live between cultures and nations and their search for a place in the world. Aydemir makes you want to help Hazal, to run through the night with her, to know what will happen to her -- and to all of us.” (Carl Hanser Verlag)
About the author:
Fatma Aydemir, born in 1986 in Karlsruhe, studied Germanics and American Studies in Frankfurt am Main. She has lived in Berlin since 2012 as an editor at the newspaper taz while also freelancing for numerous publications, including Spex and Missy magazines. Her debut novel, Ellbogen was published in 2017, for which she received the Klaus-Michael-Kühne Prize and the Franz-Hessel Prize. In 2019 she edited the anthology Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum together with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah.
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