by Feridun Zaimoglu · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596036264
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«Siebentürmeviertel» is the novel by Feridun Zaimoglu, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (800 pages, in German).
In 1939, Wolf and his father flee Germany after a warning from the Gestapo and take refuge in Istanbul, at the home of Abdullah Bey, in the Siebentürmeviertel, a neighbourhood where religions and ethnicities coexist in tense balance. Wolf grows up there, integrated among the neighbourhood's young people, until the secret surrounding his protector puts him in danger.
Novel nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis 2015. It was originally published in 2015; this paperback edition dates from 2017.
For readers of historical and contemporary fiction interested in emigration, cultural clash and twentieth-century Istanbul.
Feridun Zaimoğlu is a German author and visual artist of Turkish descent.
