52 Factory Lane

Part two of the Anatolian Blues trilogy

'You'll live out your lives in a foreign country,' Gul is warned. But the whole world is foreign when you're far from your loved ones. The journey to Germany ushers in 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.

‘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, for scents, colours and fruit. Yet Factory Lane in this cold, incomprehensible country becomes a different kind of home.

A novel about how home is found in many places from the author of The Blacksmith's Daughter (9783863912949)

‘Honest, urgent and emotional.’ Augsburger Allgemeine

‘An absolutely recommended novel that quietly stimulates the reader’s thoughts and portrays the hard work behind seeing a new country as home.’ migazin