Compass
Énard, Mathias, 1972-2017
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As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, Orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the centre of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East.
Main title:
Compass / Mathias Enard ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
Author:
Énard, Mathias, 1972-, authorMandell, Charlotte, translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.
Collation:
475 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
Awards:
Prix Goncourt 2015
ISBN:
9781910695234 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
83251