More is a stunning novel about human trafficking and its fatal consequences! The boy Gaza is raised alone with his father, without a mother and without any love. They live in a village in Turkey near the Aegean Sea and his father makes a living as a human trafficker. Gaza is only nine years old and is already training to be a human trafficker with all the mental costs for such a little boy. The father is a brutal man without any empathy for his fellow human beings including his son. Gaza is beaten and given burn marks whenever he doesn’t do as his father wants him to do.
In Gaza’s village they receive immigrants from countries close to Turkey where there are war and turmoil e.g., Afghanistan. Gaza and his father treat the immigrants as commodities. They detain the immigrants in a barn for some time and then they ship them to Europe for a handsome payment.
Gaza is a highly intelligent boy, and his school wants him to go to Istanbul to attend one of the best schools in the country. However, Gaza’s father rejects this idea as he wants Gaza to stay in the business as a human trafficker. Over the years Gaza becomes just as ruthless as his father and he experiments with the immigrants’ mental and physical limits while his own mental health is deteriorating.
The father dies during one of the operations in which Gaza is also involved. The truck they are moving the immigrants in is in a fatal accident and drives off the road. Gaza is buried under a lot of dead immigrant bodies and after some days he is found barely alive. His father’s death forces Gaza to speculate about the future while he is battling his escalating mental problems.
The book won the French Le Prix Medicis Estranger which is the annual prize in France for best foreign novel. Recommendation is hereby forwarded to you.
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