Lit in Translation

Compass

Boussole

Mathias Énard (born 1972)

Translated by Charlotte Mandell

English editions

In English

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Through one sleepless night in his Vienna flat, Franz Ritter, a musicologist infatuated with the Middle East, wanders between dream and memory over his stays in Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, Palmyra and Tehran, and over his hopeless love for Sarah, who studies the East's spell on Western travellers, scholars and artists. A world of orientalists in love with exchange, shadowed by today's violence.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
377 pages in the original
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Austria, Türkiye, Syria, Iran
First published
2015 by Actes Sud
Author's age
43 when first published
ISBN

9782330053123 (original)

9780811226622 (New Directions, United States)

9781910695234 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)

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