"A masterpiece."--The Guardian "Superb."--The New York Times Review
of Books Older 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. Younger 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.
He explores a world of Uberized workers, weighed down by
loneliness, struggling to survive, but he also describes the
universe of those who are actors in the global jihad:
indoctrination, combat, their impossible return . . . This is the
poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons
try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn't offer them
many opportunities.
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