Compass (Paperback)

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 2015 Prix Goncourt, this is Mathias Enard’s most ambitious novel since Zone.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2015
Authors:	Mathias Enard
Translators:	Charlotte Mandell
Dimensions:	198 x 127 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	475
ISBN-13:	978-1-910695-23-4
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	1-910695-23-8
Barcode:	9781910695234

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