A moving German-Turkish family story by bestselling author Lenz Koppelstätter. When Ayla thinks of her grandfather Mesut, she dreams of the bench under the fig tree in his garden, where he used to tell her the most adventurous stories. She remembers the shimmering summers of her childhood, full of light, heat, and dust, which she spent with her family in Anatolia, her mother Hava's homeland. Hava left her home as a young woman, but she didn't find happiness in Germany, on Lake Constance, nor in her marriage. She never forgot the man she wasn't allowed to marry—and never forgave her father. And so, Ayla and her brother Yasin set off with their mother in an old Mercedes to Anatolia so that Hava can see her great love again. A journey begins that leads into the past, to the small village in the mountains where farmer Mesut dreamed of the big, wide world—and his daughter of freedom. Notes: New product