Mercedes

Mercedes is a sweeping literary novel told through a mosaic of lives connected by a single object — a car that becomes far more than a machine. Across a century of upheaval, ambition, illusion, and reinvention, the Mercedes passes from owner to owner: an industrialist chasing permanence after war, a driver who will never possess what he commands, a general clinging to order, migrants, smugglers, directors, newlyweds, taxi drivers, influencers, programmers, and, finally, an old man and the l...