Mathias Énard
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"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 the renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist, anti-fascist, and a survivor of Buchenwald"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona, hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts -- a group he worked in Tangier, Morocco, not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father. Lakhdar's transformations -- from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner -- take place against the backdrop...
3) Zone
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Publication Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Francis Servain Mirković travels from Milan to Rome with a briefcase holding priceless information about the history of Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, and Italy, and soon learns that someone is willing to kill in order to keep the information secret.
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1506, Michelangelo -- young but already renowned sculptor -- is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design had been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal." Michelangelo, after some...
5) Compass
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents. But what David doesn't yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions,...
Author
Series
Babel (Arles France) volume 1259
Publisher
Babel
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona, hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts -- a group he worked in Tangier, Morocco, not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father. Lakhdar's transformations -- from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner -- take place against the backdrop...
Author
Series
Babel (Arles France) volume 1153
Publisher
Actes Sud
Publication Date
2013.
Language
Français
11) Boussole: roman
Author
Publisher
Actes Sud
Publication Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
"La nuit descend sur Vienne et sur l'appartement où Franz Ritter, musicologue épris d'Orient, cherche en vain le sommeil, dérivant entre songes et souvenirs, mélancolie et fièvre, revisitant sa vie, ses emballements, ses rencontres et ses nombreux séjours loin de l'Autriche--Istanbul, Alep, Damas, Palmyre, Téhéran...--, mais aussi questionnant son amour impossible avec l'idéale et insaisissable Sarah, spécialiste de l'attraction fatale de...
12) Zone: roman
Author
Series
Babel volume 1020
Publisher
Actes sud
Publication Date
2013.
Language
Français
14) Tomar refugio
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
La contraportada dice: "Entre el Berlín actual y el Afganistán de entreguerras, se entretejen dos historias de amor en respuesta a dos épocas complejas. Alianod contrarios y acercando a personas que jamás deberían haberse cruzado, este relato explora los límites del territorio amoroso, del que ofrece una cartografía precisa y conmovedora."

