In offener Runde mit Tuana Atay (@tuanas.books)

In the organizer's words:

Together with Tuana Atay, we invite you to a discussion about Aslı Erdoğan's novel "The City with the Red Cloak"

For months now, we have been eager to open up a space for people in love with reading to be active, loud and, above all, communal, because a book always has a social essence. Reading it may have been a quiet process, but then they want to go out: the cautious assumptions about motifs, the complaints about straining passages, the shocks in the face of constellations of characters, the questions about the world sketched out, the amazement, the eagerness, the rapture, the wonder. What did the author want to tell me and who can I tell about it? Believe us, there are many of you who can be such a counterpart. It would be a pleasure for us to bring you together.

Our new format "In an open round", in which we can count on the knowledgeable book people of Hamburg, should make this possible. Tuana Atay will provide the first reading impulse. As a book blogger (@tuanas.books), she is a member of the jury for the Hamburg Literature Awards 2024 and is now drawing our attention to the author and journalist Aslı Erdoğan. Born in Istanbul in 1967, she now lives in exile in Germany. She is regarded worldwide as a symbolic figure for the resistance against arbitrary rule in her home country. We approach her work with the sublime novel "Die Stadt mit der roten Pelerine" (Unionsverlag; translation: Angelika Gillitz-Acar and Angelika Hoch; 208 pages).

Shall we meet?