‘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