Dua for the unbeliever

Annotation to the book "Dua for the Infidel" by Jabbarova E.: "This text is like a Russian road: it is uneven, with bumps and holes, with repairs in the middle of the highway. I do not have a navigator for Seryoga's life, so all that remains for me is to drive by touch." In the book, Yegan Jabbarova attempts to reconstruct a short biography of her half-brother Sergei, born from an extramarital affair of her father. Following her brother along the route that led to his early and tragic death, the author discovers that the history of the country of the late 1990s - early 2000s emerges through Sergei's story: interethnic tension, poverty, the struggle for survival, an epidemic of addictions and an identity crisis. At the same time, turning to the fate of the deceased brother becomes an act of love and memory, the only way to connect the discrete events of his and your life and to overcome the gap - cultural, religious, existential. Yegana Dzhabbarova is a writer, poetess, essayist, author of the books "The Hands of the Women of My Family Were Not for Writing", "The Red Alarm Button", "Bosphorus" and "Romberg's Pose". Read more...