Immigrants like Aras Ören, writes Hans Magnus Enzensberger, find it difficult here: "Silently and in its own way, the literary scene follows the rules of the immigration office." Strangers have been coming to Europe for thousands of years and have made it their home. "Without the newcomers and their baggage, the world would not be what it is today," Ören knows. Nevertheless, those who come here are repeatedly faced with hostility. And they themselves must change, as the foreign culture confronts them with new customs and traditions. Aras Ören has repeatedly engaged with this conflict in novels, poems, and speeches. This reader presents a cross-section of his rich work, in which it has been repeatedly stated since the 1960s: "The foreign land is also a home.".