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Compass (Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Bo
Publisher:
FABER
| Author:
ENARD, MATHIAS
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
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FABER
Author:
ENARD, MATHIAS
Language:
English
Format:
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Category General Fiction
Tag Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Category: General Fiction
Page Extent:
48
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. An immersive, nocturnal, musical novel, full of generous erudition and bittersweet humour, Compass is a journey and a declaration of admiration, a quest for the otherness inside us all and a hand reaching out: like a bridge between West and East, yesterday and tomorrow. Winner of the 215 Prix Goncourt, this is Mathias Enard’s most ambitious novel since Zone.
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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. An immersive, nocturnal, musical novel, full of generous erudition and bittersweet humour, Compass is a journey and a declaration of admiration, a quest for the otherness inside us all and a hand reaching out: like a bridge between West and East, yesterday and tomorrow. Winner of the 215 Prix Goncourt, this is Mathias Enard’s most ambitious novel since Zone.
About Author
Mathias Enard, born in 1972, studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 213 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix D©cembre, and won the Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l'Orient, the Prix litt©raire de la Porte Dor©e and the Prix du Roman-News for Street of Thieves. He won the 215 Prix Goncourt, the 217 Leipziger Book Award for European Understanding, and was shortlisted for the 217 Man Booker International Prize for Compass.
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