Ağabey

Big Brother Book Description

Big Brother in the suburbs of Paris A contemporary and political novel about two half-Syrian, half-French brothers, one a taxi driver and the other a surgical nurse, who have grown up and are in their thirties. In today's world, where current debates such as Islamic terrorism, Islamophobia, secularism, immigrants, unemployment and precariat are increasingly intensified with the Syrian Civil War, it carries the reader into the reality of the world and the depths of the souls of the people who are the subjects of all these discussions; It offers a shocking and eye-opening experience by questioning concepts such as nationality, belonging, culture and identity through the eyes of its heroes.

With this first novel he wrote in French, Mahir Güven with Ağabey, Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, Prix Régine-Deforges, Prix He won important awards such as Premiere. The author, who himself grew up in the suburbs as a child of immigrants, gave life to these young people as genuine personalities with all their human emotions and psychological depths, in response to the clichés that have become entrenched in the general perception of lower-class youth and constantly repeat themselves in artistic productions. While doing this, in addition to strikingly transcribing the current slang produced in the suburbs, the unique language he created by blending it with high literary French is considered one of the most successful elements of the work, almost a personality in itself.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Number of Pages: 256

Size: 13.5 x 21.5

< strong>First Print Year: 2020

Print Number: 1. Edition

Language : Turkish