An adult son loses his mother. In the weeks leading up to her death, everyday life sets the pace: cooking, waiting in hospital corridors, hoping and mourning. Stories creep into everyday life, the ones that have always been told and the ones that shine through behind them. What does the son, at home in Germany, know about his mother's youth in Turkey? While Anil and his family in the present try to understand the impact their mother's approaching death has had on them, Mürüvvet, the woman his mother once was, searches for ways back to life in Aydin in western Turkey in 1973. In the midst of political upheaval, she does everything she can to stop her father from taking her to Germany. She fears for her dreams, until the thought of Germany will not let her go.

A novel about saying goodbye to Turkey and making a new start in Germany, about the often unbearable distance to those closest to you - and about the desperate desire to catch up with love.

Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, born in 1992 in Wetzlar, lives and works in Berlin. In his texts, including for ZEIT, taz, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ZDF and Berliner Ensemble, he deals with masculinities, anti-feminism and the (de)construction of non-white, Muslim-read masculinities in Germany. His debut novel "Im Morgen wächst ein Birnbaum" was published in 2023.

The reading and discussion with the author is a cooperation between the Literaturbüro, the Fredenberg Forum, the AWiSTA Fredenberg and the Citizens' Service for Migrants. The discussion will be moderated by Dincer Dinc.

Admission costs 5 euros. Tickets are available at the bookshop in the Ärztehaus (Lebenstedt), at the Lesezeichen bookshop (Salzgitter-Bad), at the Fredenberg Forum, Kurt-Schumacher-Ring 4, at Fredenberg.

Literaturbüro der Stadt Salzgitter on 05341 / 839-3752, e-mail literaturbuerostadt.salzgitterde or at the Fredenberg Forum on 05341 / 50512 as well as at the AWiSTA on 05341 / 9027718 and at the Citizens' Service for Migrants on 05341 / 790 5630.