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Metin Mutlu is five when, in 1983, his Turkish family arrives in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer after a stay in Germany. His father, out of work and a devoted Marxist, spends his evenings drinking, gambles the benefits away and often lashes out, so the boy learns to vanish from sight. Only as Metin and his sister grow older, and their mother studies and earns her own living, does the family begin to stand up to him. All the while the estate itself, once planned as a model of modern living, slides into a ghetto ruled by crime and heroin.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

596 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands, 1980s–1990s

First published

2017 by Ambo|Anthos

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9789041422903 (original)