Two balls, Gérard Lecas

A dark novel at the heart of current events, combining post-traumatic stress disorder among soldiers returning from Afghanistan and the migrant crisis!

June 2013: As the French army withdraws from Afghanistan, corporal Vincent Castillo reunites with Willy, his seriously wounded brother-in-arms, in Marseille. They had dreamed of a project for their return to civilian life: buying a food truck and travelling along the coast during the summer. But for now, Willy is in a wheelchair and Vincent is on antipsychotics. For lack of anything better, Vincent returns to his father's house, a shabby hotel repurposed as a shelter for migrants. There, he finds his two brothers, Denis and Jordan, whom he hasn't seen in a long time and who have both changed a lot... He discovers Hamid, his Afghan interpreter friend, exiled to escape the Taliban, and meets Leila, the beautiful Afghan woman, and her son Ashmat, who are waiting for who knows what... After everything he has experienced, Vincent is looking for a new life. But the problem is that here, real brothers are hard to come by...