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New Directions
Mathias Enard
The Deserters
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Publisher > New Directions
Author > Mathias Enard
Title > The Deserters
Issue > ---
Year > 2025
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ISBN > 9780811239028
Pages > 192
Genre > Fiction
Language > English
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Type > Retail
Media > Book
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2025-05
Release > 2026-06-29
Disks > 01*1836kB
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https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-deserters-7
From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an epic, furious novel that shows the
dangers of ideology and the aftermath of warWINNER OF THE FRENCHAMERICAN
FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
2026A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wildernesshe
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
antifascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald.The tension grows
between these two narrative threads, andpulled together in Mathias Enards
enchanting, brilliant, erudite prosetime itself seems to become tightly
interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics,...
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