Doğan Akhanlı and Recai Hallaç at the Leipzig Book Fair

Dogan Akhanli Greift in Madonna's Last Dream the short stories Madonna in a fur coat by the Turkish poet Sabahattin Ali and rewrites them. Akhanlı makes Ali himself a character in a novel. On his way into exile in 1948 he was killed by members of the Turkish secret service. Immediately before his death, he confesses that Maria Puder actually died differently than in his novella. Madonna's Last Dream is an attempt to discover the true story of the life and death of Maria Puder during the Nazi era.

The author takes you back into the world of your childhood, into the love story of Sabahattin Ali, into serious research into the historical events of the Holocaust, and into anarchist conversations among friends. The historical mixes with the autobiographical and the fictional, creating a whirlpool of memories and events in which times and spaces sometimes blur.