Brotherhood Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Brotherhood

Author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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Book Title
Brotherhood
Author
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
ISBN
9781609456726
WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman M tis Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority. Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman's personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child's life. At the same time, spurred on by their indignation at what seems to be an escalation of The Brotherhood's brutality, a band of intellectuals and free-thinkers seeks to awaken the conscience of the cowed populace and foment rebellion by publishing an underground newspaper. While they grapple with the implications of what they have done, the regime's brutal leader begins a personal crusade to find the responsible parties, and bring them to his own sense of justice. In this brilliant analysis of tyranny and brutality, Mbougar Sarr explores the ways in which resistance and heroism can often give way to cowardice, all while giving voice to the moral ambiguities and personal struggles involved in each of his characters' search to impose the values they hold most dear.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Mohamed Mbougar SarrPublisher: Europa EditionsPublished: 07/06/2021ISBN: 9781609456726Pages: 208Weight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d

WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman M tis

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority.

Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman's personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child's life.

At the same time, spurred on by their indignation at what seems to be an escalation of The Brotherhood's brutality, a band of intellectuals and free-thinkers seeks to awaken the conscience of the cowed populace and foment rebellion by publishing an underground newspaper. While they grapple with the implications of what they have done, the regime's brutal leader begins a personal crusade to find the responsible parties, and bring them to his own sense of justice.

In this brilliant analysis of tyranny and brutality, Mbougar Sarr explores the ways in which resistance and heroism can often give way to cowardice, all while giving voice to the moral ambiguities and personal struggles involved in each of his characters' search to impose the values they hold most dear.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 07/06/2021
ISBN: 9781609456726
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d

WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman M tis

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority.

Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman's personal reckoning with a leadership that would take her beloved child's life.

At the same time, spurred on by their indignation at what seems to be an escalation of The Brotherhood's brutality, a band of intellectuals and free-thinkers seeks to awaken the conscience of the cowed populace and foment rebellion by publishing an underground newspaper. While they grapple with the implications of what they have done, the regime's brutal leader begins a personal crusade to find the responsible parties, and bring them to his own sense of justice.

In this brilliant analysis of tyranny and brutality, Mbougar Sarr explores the ways in which resistance and heroism can often give way to cowardice, all while giving voice to the moral ambiguities and personal struggles involved in each of his characters' search to impose the values they hold most dear.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 07/06/2021
ISBN: 9781609456726
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d