Katharina Winkler's debut novel "Blauschmuck" is entirely based on true events. It vividly portrays the depths of addiction and brutal oppression, telling the story of a woman's life where love and violence are not only inseparable but also indistinguishable. Filiz grows up in a Kurdish village in Turkey. She is twelve when she falls in love with Yunus, who is a few years older, and dreams of a shared life in the West with him. At fifteen, she secretly marries him against her father's wishes. However, with the marriage, her dreams of freedom and autonomy shatter: instead of wearing jeans, Filiz now wears a burka; along with the three children born from this marriage, she is subjected to the physical and emotional brutality of her husband and mother-in-law. The family's emigration to the West does not change this reality.