ELLBOGEN

Our German book club continues this winter. We’d like to invite you to read the novel “Ellbogen” by Fatma Aydemir and to join us for a discussion in German.

Between Germany and Turkey - a young woman searches for a home. A warm-hearted and fierce debut novel by Fatma Aydemir.

She is seventeen. She was born in Berlin. Her name is Hazal Akgündüz. She could actually become an ordinary adult. Except that her parents, who immigrated from Turkey, feel like strangers in Germany. And that Hazal makes fatal mistakes in her search for a home. First it's just a stolen lipstick. Then blunt force. When the police come after her, Hazal flees to Istanbul, where she has never been before. Warm-hearted and fierce, Fatma Aydemir tells of the many people who live between cultures and nations, and of their search for a place in the world. You want to help Hazal, you want to run through the night with her, you want to know what will happen to her and to all of us.