When Fatma is introduced to her future husband, she doesn't want to marry him.

The mother is also against it, but the uncle persuades her.

This marriage is the opportunity for Fatma and her brothers to escape poverty, because the husband wants to take her to Germany where he has a job.

The young woman bows to the family decision and quickly realizes that this is not the country where there are “flying carriages, singing cows and dancing rivers”, as Dinçer Güçyeter puts it at one point in the novel “Unser Deutschlandsmärchen” by Dinçer Güçyeter.

The family, who stayed in Anatolia, believes to the last that Fatma "plucks the German mark like pears from the trees".

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The poet and publisher Dinçer Güçyeter describes the story of a family spanning three generations: beginning with the nomad daughter Hanife and continuing with her daughter Fatma, who goes to Germany and gives birth to her son Dinçer there.

He tells of finding a new home, which is connected with finding a large teapot, describes how Fatma wears herself out between the hard work in an auto parts factory and her husband's pub in order to be able to provide for the family.

He reports in relentless, clear sentences about unfaithful men, old ideas of honor and the women who suffer from them.

He talks about what happens when the so-called guest workers have worked themselves to pieces and what it means as a boy to want to live a life contrary to family expectations.

We spoke to Dinçer Güçyeter about his own family history and the variety of voices and forms in his book, about the place of writers with Turkish roots in contemporary German-language literature and the wild decision to found his own publishing house.

Finally, we present a new literature puzzle, reveal the solution from October and, of course, who won our book prize this time.

"Our Germany Fairy Tale" by Dinçer Güçyeter was published by Mikrotext Verlag, has 216 pages and costs 25 euros.

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