Who were we running away from, Mother?

"Those who hurt us will be punished, Bamjrim. They need to be punished. That's why your mother exists. She stayed here. To show off those who hurt you. Your rudeness and evil."
To inflict punishment."

I know, Mommy.

I know you had to give them their punishment.

Perihan Magden's novel, written five years after the novel of Two Young Girls, which became a contemporary cult novel, and published in twelve countries so far, Who were we running away from, Mother? The story of a mother and daughter in a burning relationship, advancing step by step to a bitter end. The secrets surrounding the past of a beautiful girl and her eccentric mother, who have to escape from city to city and from hotel to hotel, are discovered by the reader in a spiral that unravels page by page. The impasses of the mother-daughter relationship, one of Magden's main themes, are not taken to a new dimension in this novel with a life dragged in an intense tide of love-hate and the drama of a mother raising her child alone.



"A novel of a broken heart; at the same time, an uncanny thriller..."

Neue Luzerner Zeitung
Switzerland