Zone
Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (translation)
Homeric in its scope & grandeur, remarkable in its detail, Énard's American debut is a screaming take on history, war, & violence. Francis Servain Mirkovic, the son of a French father & a Croatian mother, is a spy whose job it is to resell stolen secrets to their legitimate owners. His "Zone" is the Mediterranean. It is the early 21st century & he is on his last mission, taking a train from Milan to Rome under a fake name & revisiting, in a blistering stream-of-consciousness (periods are few & far between), his childhood, his career, & various women, among them Sashka, the Russian painter he plans to meet in Rome; Marianne, from his youth; & Stéphanie, his fellow agent. Weighing heavily on him is his time with the Croatian army during the "Yugoslav madness," where he witnessed & took part in atrocities. As Francis's train speeds along, his story picks up momentum, becoming nearly frantic by the final stretch. Mandell's translation of the extravagant text is stunning.
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Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, & the Premio von Rezzori, & shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize), Zone, Street of Thieves & The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild. He is also a translator from Persian & Arabic.
Kateqoriyalar:
İl:
2013
Nəşriyyat:
Open Letter
Dil:
english
ISBN 10:
6021453913
ISBN 13:
9786021453919
ISBN:
B00DDZ720A
Fayl:
EPUB, 421 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2013