Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy Told with great affection for his characters, Selim zdoanstrilogy traces out the life of Gl, a Turkish girl who grows up in1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Bookone details her initially idyllic childhood, ruptured by her mothersearly death. Ever close to her loving father, Gl grows into awarm-hearted, hard-working young woman. The BlacksmithsDaughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters,old wives tales and young peoples ambitions the melancholybeauty and pain of an ordinary life.