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Compass
Full title: | Compass |
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ISBN: | 9780811226622 |
ISBN 10: | 081122662X |
Authors: | Énard, Mathias |
Publisher: | New Directions |
Edition: | 1st American Edition |
Num. pages: | 448 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2017 |
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Synopsis
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 Center 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.--amazon.com. Mathias Énard ; Translated By Charlotte Mandell. Originally Published In French As Boussole By Acres Sud In 2015.--t.p.verso.