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The Deserters

Mathias Énard

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The Deserters won the Prix Goncourt. 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 renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald. The tension grows between these two narrative threads, and—pulled together in Mathias Énard's enchanting, brilliant, erudite prose—time itself seems to become tightly interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics, loyalty and belief, hope and survival.

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Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN-13
9780811239028
Genre
Fiction
Topics
War and its aftermathIdeology and politicsMemory and history

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