Herr Kiyak dachte, jetzt fängt der schöne Teil des Lebens an

What remains when your father slips through your fingers? Mr Kiyak, a fabulous storyteller, gets cancer and wants to die. But he has a daughter - and what a daughter she is: she makes his fate hers and won't let him go. After all, you only have one father. Mely Kiyak tells of a time when everything is at stake. Of Mr Kiyak's struggle for survival in Berlin and his cowboy stories from Bingöl. Of endless mischief and great sorrow. It tells truthfully, beautifully and stubbornly of fatherly love and daughterly fear and of the fact that it is the stories that last. And, of course, of his famous two-line letters: "I kiss you, my child. Your father." "Das Vaterbuch" is a text about illness, loss and despair. Like "Frausein", it is about parting. And about humour as resistance. "Frausein" and the father book are two texts, but one narrative body. One suffering, one laughter, one death." Mely Kiyak.