Coming Home Book

Elif grew up in London and considers it to be her true home. But she also loves Turkey and the holidays she spends there with her Turkish family. When, at the end of the summer, her brother pleads with her to stay she gives in, but is little prepared for the realities of Turkish life away from the sun and sea. When she realises that her family are embroiled in a political battle and that her brother is getting too involved, her dreams of constant sunshine and easy days on the beach are shattered. In Coming Home, Hicyilmaz astutely crosses the divide between an enlightening story of cruelly clashing cultures and a rights-of-passage tale of a teenager taking on some of the responsibilities of adulthood. Persistently challenging and frequently shocking, Coming Home is a novel built on the intensity of family ties in an unfamiliar world filled with shattered illusions. --Susan HarrisonRead More