Older Brother

Older Brother
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Publisher : Europa Editions
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781609455507
ISBN-13 : 1609455509
Rating : 4/5 (509 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Older Brother by : Mahir Guven

Download or read book Older Brother written by Mahir Guven and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prix Goncourt Winner: A “superb” novel of a Syrian immigrant in France and his two sons (The New York Times Book Review). Older Brother 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. The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family. The eldest son is a driver for an app-based car service, which comically puts him at odds with his father, whose very livelihood is threatened by this new generation of disruptors. The younger son, shy and serious, works as a nurse in a French hospital. Jaded by the regular rejections he encounters in French society, he decides to join a Muslim humanitarian organization to help wounded civilians in the war in Syria. But when he stops sending news home, the silence begins to eat away at his father and brother, who wonder what his real motivations were. And when the younger brother returns home, he has changed . . . “A masterpiece of a first novel.” —The Guardian “A striking debut that reveals the breadth of emotional disconnection that prejudice can stoke within a family.” —Kirkus Reviews


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