Family

Grashina Gabelmann (Translator) Karosh Taha

In the Belly of the Queen

Amal shocks the whole neighbourhood by beating up her classmate Younes. Her father defends her behaviour and encourages her to assert herself. From then on everyone avoids Amal – and then her father leaves. Searching in vain for an explanation, Amal finds unexpected refuge with Younes and his mother Shahira, both outsiders like her. Years …

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    1. April 2023
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Ivana Sajko Mima Simić (Translator)

Love Novel

Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed humanist, is trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a passable actress, has given up her safe job at the theatre to care for their child. He is delirious, she is on edge. With …

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Ayça Türkoğlu (Translator) Katy Derbyshire (Translator) Selim Özdoğan

52 Factory Lane

„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 …

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Ayça Türkoğlu (Translator) Katy Derbyshire (Translator) Selim Özdoğan

The Blacksmith’s Daughter

Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy

V&Q Books Title Told with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdoğan’s trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Book one details her initially idyllic childhood, ruptured by her mother’s early death. Ever close to her loving …

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    288 pages
    1. März 2021
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Lucy Fricke Sinéad Crowe (Translator)

Daughters

V&Q Books Title Lucy Fricke’s »Daughters« tells the story of two women, pushing forty, on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers’ favourite in Germany, »Daughters« evokes laughter and tears by way of life and death, friendship and family.

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    208 pages
    15. September 2020
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Katy Derbyshire (Translator) Sandra Hoffmann

Paula

V&Q Books Title Sandra Hoffmann’s »Paula« is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce? …

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    143 pages
    15. September 2020
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