Madonna's Last Dream by Doğan Akhanlı

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The Cologne writer Doğan Akhanlı was the last to get through to a broader audience Arrest in Granada became known, the report of his arrest ordered by the Erdogan regime while on vacation in Spain and the subsequent release thanks to the mediation of the EU. His 2006 published epic Madonna's Last Dream is a fascinatingly complex text that describes the darkest chapter in German history from an unusual perspective: Through the figure of the Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali and his relationship with the Jewish diseuse Maria Puder, Akhanlı provides insight into the rise and establishment of the National Socialist regime in Berlin in the 1930s Years from the perspective of an emigrant. The masterfully narrated and interwoven novel traces a network of historical voices that have never been heard in this constellation before, and bundles storylines that relate to the sinking of the unseaworthy refugee ship Goitre off the Turkish coast in 1942 to the current situation of the writer, who tries to reconstruct the catastrophe six decades later.