The Language of the Sun

In Istanbul, that historic megacity between East and West, Lee learns that her grandmother’s former companion and occasional lover, the journalist and agent Georg Naumann, is still alive, now well over a hundred years old. What links him to Helene and perhaps even to Lee? In this exciting, multifaceted novel we experience the violence of history, the power of love and Istanbul as a labyrinth and a refuge. Knowledgeable and sensual – the major new novel by Matthias Göritz.

*‘Taksim, ancient cistern, Taksim, starting point of a world, nowhere else is the Earth as round as it is here.’

*The story of a young American tracing the history of her Jewish grandmother, who fled from Germany to Istanbul

*A major, century-spanning novel about Istanbul

*Could “not-belonging” somewhere also be a solution?