The Deserters

Mathias Enard

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Translation:: Charlotte Mandell
Publisher:: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 05/2025
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780811239011
Item number:: 12034761
Volume:: 192 Pages
Weight:: 231 g
Format:: 203 x 137 mm
Thickness:: 15 mm
Release date:: 20.5.2025
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Blurb

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness-he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, aboard a small cruise ship, a scientific conference takes place to pay tribute to renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald. The tension grows between these two narrative threads, and-pulled together in Mathias Énard's enchanting, brilliant, erudite prose-time itself seems to become tightly interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics, loyalty and belief, hope and survival.

Biography (Mathias Enard)

Mathias Enard, 1972 geboren, lebt in Barcelona. Auf Deutsch erschienen von ihm die Romane Zone (2010), für den er den Candide-Preis 2008 erhielt, Erzähl ihnen von Schlachten, Königen und Elefanten (2011), ausgezeichnet mit dem Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2010, und zuletzt, 2013, Straße der Diebe. Für den Roman Kompass erhielt er den Prix Goncourt 2015. Im März 2017 erhielt Enard zudem den Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung