Die Stadt mit der roten Pelerine

Rio de Janeiro: city of carnival, master of the game of deceptions, coincidences and masquerade. Özgür, an introverted young Turkish academic, cannot detach herself from the city, which is as fascinating as it is threatening. The young woman is far removed from the traditional role of a woman as envisaged by Turkish society. Özgür leads the reader through the labyrinths of this metropolis not like a tourist, but like a migrant who accepts what is initially foreign as familiar and her own. At the same time, the city is the impulse for her writing and for the creation of her fictional doppelganger Ö. - The two narrative levels, intertwined in manifold ways, mirror each other. Breathtaking is the nuanced fine drawing of the people, who merge in love and suffering in often deadly ways.