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Dilek Zaptcioglu. Der Mond isst die Sterne auf. Stuttgart. Thienemann. 1998. 221 pages. DM 24. ISBN 3-522-171954.
Dilek Zaptcioglu, erstwhile editor-in-chief of the German-Turkish periodical Bizim Almanca / Unser Deutsch, knows the material at the center of her debut novel-namely, the status of nonethnic Germans in the Federal Republic-both by dint of her studies of history and politics in Istanbul and Gottingen and by her career as a journalist (she is currently a German correspondent for the major Turkish newspaper, Cumhurriyet). The novel is neither overly journalistic nor overly literary, but instead a very readable combination of the two. Zaptcioglu presents...