Ellbogen

She is seventeen. She was born in Berlin. Her name is Hazal Akgündüz. She could actually become an ordinary adult. Only that her parents, who immigrated from Turkey, feel foreign in Germany. And that Hazal makes fatal mistakes in her search for home. At first, it’s just a stolen lipstick. Then blunt violence. When the police are after her, Hazal flees to Istanbul, a place she has never been before. Fatma Aydemir tells warmly and wildly about the many people who live between cultures and nations, and about 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 happens next for her and for all of us.