The deserters
Énard, Mathias, 1972-2025
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Fleeing a nameless war, an unknown soldier emerges from deep within the Mediterranean scrubland, dirty and exhausted. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he puts on a life. On 11 September 2001, aboard a small cruise ship on the River Havel near Berlin, a conference of scientists pays homage to the late East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a Buchenwald survivor and steadfast antifascist who remained loyal to his side of the Berlin Wall despite the collapse of the Communist utopia, unaware that a new era of violence is about to descend. Out of the tension between these narratives, everything that is at stake in times of conflict - in love as in politics - comes to light: commitment and betrayal, loyalty and lucidity, hope and survival.
Main title:
The deserters / Mathias Enard ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
Author:
Énard, Mathias, 1972-, authorMandell, Charlotte, translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781804271636 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
8573120
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