A writing duo returns with a novel narrated by the mother of a jihadist's son
Four years after a story collection on the "grey zones" of our era, a pair of co-authors publish Samira, built around the voice of a mother whose son left to join Daech in Syria.
According to a review in Le Courrier (Switzerland), a writing duo who published the short-story collection Dures comme le bois in 2022 have returned with a new novel, Samira. The earlier book, nineteen stories, was described as probing the "zones grises de notre époque" — the grey zones of our time.
Samira is carried by the voice of a mother whose son has left to join Daech in Syria. Le Courrier calls the novel "bouleversant" and says it confounds readers' expectations, though the review does not spell out how.
The source material available to us does not name the authors, the publisher, or give further plot detail, so this account is necessarily brief.
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