Book description
Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them.
An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence, woven across generations and geographies, from Turkey to…
Why read it?
1 author picked Son of Sin as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Omar Sakr is a poet. Son of Sin is his first novel and his prose reflects his poetic style.
You can see this in extracts such as:
“…the staggered and warped back and forth of people who don’t know how to talk to each other without trying to win, to force the other to concede.”
And this is what appealed to me about this work. It’s less of a narrative and more of a meditation on identity. Yes, there are story elements, but the words make you muse on what it means to ‘fit in’.
One message I took away…
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