Older brother
Guven, Mahir, 1986-2019
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Big brother is a driver for an app-based car service. Closed off for eleven hours every day in his cab, constantly tuned in to the radio, he ruminates about his life and the world that is waiting just on the other side of the windshield. Little brother set out for Syria several months ago, full of idealism. Hired as a nurse by a Muslim humanitarian organization, he has recently stopped sending any news back home. This silence eats away at his father and brother, who ask themselves over and over again: why did he leave? One evening, the intercom rings. Little brother has come home. In this incisive first novel, Mahir Guven alternates between lively humour and the gravity imposed by the threat of terrorism.
Main title:
Older brother / Mahir Guven ; translated by Tina Kover.
Imprint:
Brentwood : Europa Editions, 2019.Brentwood : Europa Editions, 2019.
Collation:
256 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781787701861 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2234082