The Blacksmith''s Daughter

Told with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdoans trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in rural 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Book one details her initially idyllic childhood, ruptured by her mothers early death. Ever close to her loving father, Gül grows into a warm-hearted, hard-working young woman. The Blacksmiths Daughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters, old wives tales and young peoples ambitions the melancholy beauty and pain of an ordinary life. Reading it was like falling in love. If everyone read this book, the world would be a better place more considerate, more liveable, more tolerant. Fatih Akn, director of The Edge of Heaven; The books muted poetry all the way to its quiet ending warms the soul like later summer wind gently stroking through hair. Sächsische Zeitung; The novel enchants its readers with the sincerity and love with which it assesses the weight of the simple things in life. Fachdienst Germanistik; A mature, light, wise book. Kreuzer magazine See more