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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
capture the essence of rurality, the intrepid scholar shuttles
around restlessly on his moped to interview local residents.
   Unbeknownst to David, in these nondescript
lands, once theatres of wars and revolutions, Death leads the
dance. When an existence ends, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul
and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human or wild animal,
sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. Only once a year do
Death and the living observe a temporary truce, during a gargantuan
three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food,
libations and language, presided over by the village mayor.
   Brimming with Mathias Enard’s characteristic
wit and encyclopaedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the
Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between
past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian
backdrop of excess – and a paradoxically macabre paean to
life’s inexhaustible richness.
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Street of Thieves (Paperback)
Mathias Enard; Translated by Charlotte Mandell
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R395
R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
Save R71 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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In Tangier, young Lakhdar finds himself homeless after being caught
in flagrante with his cousin Meryem. As the political and religious
tensions in the Mediterranean flare up with the Arab Spring and the
global financial crisis, Lakhdar and his friend Bassam entertain
dreams of emigration, fuelled by a desire for freedom and a better
life. Part political thriller, part road-movie, part romance, the
latest novel by Mathias Enard takes us from the violence of
Tangier's streets to Barcelona's louche Raval quarter. Street of
Thieves is an intense coming-of-age story that delves deep into the
brutal realities of the immigrant experience.
In 1506, Michelangelo – a 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 was 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 hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius
II – whose commission he leaves unfinished – and
arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there,
he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching
and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed
in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what
could be his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of
Battles, Kings and Elephants – constructed from real
historical fragments – is a thrilling page-turner about why
stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly
unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can
mirror one another.
In 1506, Michelangelo-a young but already renowned sculptor-is
invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the
Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous
payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's
design was 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
hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II-whose
commission he leaves unfinished-and arrives in Constantinople for
this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and
wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his
impressions along the way, as he struggles to create what could be
his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of Battles, Kings,
and Elephants-constructed from real historical fragments-is a
thrilling page-turner about why stories are told, why bridges are
built, and how seemingly unmatched fragments, seen from the
opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.
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Zone (Paperback, New)
Mathias Enard
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R497
R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
Save R60 (12%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Over the course of a single overnight train ride, Francis Servain
Mirkovic recounts the violent history of the Zonethe lands of the
Mediterranean basin, Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, Italyand recalls the
damage that his own participation in that violence has wreaked in
his own life. Mirkovic hopes that this night will be his last in
the Zone, that this journey will expiate his sins, and that he can
disappear with Sashka, the only woman he hasnt abandoned, forever .
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