Mersija fears one thing above all in her life: ending up like her father Ahmed, poor and crazy.
In 1969, Mersija therefore gets on a train in her hometown of Brčko and travels to Germany. For the time being, t
he new homeland seems to fulfil her promises, until Mersija is also caught up there by the long-forgotten stories,
the conflicts and parallels that seem to run through all the generations of her family.
European history passes by in the background: the Second World War leaves deep scars in Ahmed's life, and before
Mersija's eyes Tito's Yugoslavia begins to disintegrate, leaving her in nowhere, between worlds, homeless.
While she herself remains a stranger in Germany, her son Adem struggles to be recognised as a German.
Three generations struggle for happiness, for their lives, for their dreams. A life-smart novel full of poetic
reminiscences that weaves the fates of its characters into a dense tapestry of memories, impressions and hopes.
»When she hears for the first time, at the age of barely sixteen, that there is a very simple way to leave the family and this city, namely to go to Germany as a guest worker, she knows that she will go. Because in another place she will not be recognised as the daughter of the man who lived his life wrongly.«
»A novel of high literary quality that deals with the question of science or faith, among other things.
Very inspiring.«
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