Dua for the Unbeliever

"This text is like a Russian road: it's uneven, with bumps and potholes, with repairs in the middle of the highway. I don't have a navigator in life like Sergey, so all that remains for me is to drive by... feel." In the book, Egana Jabbarova makes an attempt to reconstruct the short biography of Sergey’s half-brother, born from an extramarital affair of her father. Following her brother along the route that led him to an early and tragic death, the author discovers that the history of Sergey reflects the history of the country from the late 1990s to the early 2000s: interethnic tension, poverty, struggle for survival, epidemic of addiction, and identity crisis. At the same time, the reference to the fate of the deceased brother becomes an act of love and remembrance, the only way to connect the discrete events of his life and her own and overcome the gap - cultural, religious, existential. Egana Jabbarova is a writer, poet, essayist, and the author of the books "The Hands of the Women in My Family Were Not for Writing", "The Red Alert Button", "Bosporus", and "The Romberg Position".