Zone by Mathias Enard
Francis Mirkovic, a French born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is travelling by train from Milan to Rome. With him he has a briefcase, whose contents he is selling to a representative of the Vatican, which contains information about the violent history of the Zone: Spain, Algeria, Lebanon and Italy, that have become his speciality. Over the course of a single night, Mirkovic reflects on his memories of the tragedies and violence that has occoured there and his own part in it as well as on the woman he loves.Mathias ü¾Ž–Œ¼nard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmü¾Ž–”¼e de la Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Dü¾Ž–”¼cembre.
Charlotte Mandell has translated works from a number of important French authors, including Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, and Blanchot, among others. She received a Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her translation of ü¾Ž–Œ¼nard's Zone along with a French Voices grant.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781934824269 |
| ISBN 10 | 1934824267 |
| Title | Zone |
| Author | Mathias Enard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Letter |
| Year published | 2010-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 530 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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