Deniz Utlu has written his most important book to date, has been panned and defended, all before the novel is finally published. Through Hanover with the author of “Father’s Sea”.
There’s the big shortbread. Golden figurehead at the headquarters of the Bahlsen company, whose standard German product so reliably tastes of nothing. It’s plausible to see this landmark in a city that radiates normality like no other place in the country. “The biscuit is sometimes stolen,” says Deniz Utlu. Something like that makes headlines in Hanover.