Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy Told with great affection for his characters Selim zdogans trilogy traces out the life of Gl a Turkish girl who grows up in 1950s Anatolia and then moves to Germany as a migrant worker. Book one details her initially idyllic childhood ruptured by her mothers early death. Ever close to her loving father Gl grows into a warmhearted hardworking young woman. The Blacksmiths Daughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters old wives tales and you