The Deserters - Paperback
The Deserters - Paperback
Description
by Mathias Enard (Author), Charlotte Mandell (Translator)
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025
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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