Results for "Énard, Mathias"

From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside.  WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christ... Read More about The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

Michelangelo’s adventure in Constantinople, from the “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) and “masterful” (Washington Post) author of Compass In 1506, Michelangelo—a young but already renowned sculptor—is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offe... Read More about Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world Winner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award As night f... Read More about Compass

"The novel of the decade, if not of the century."--Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He's carrying a briefcase whose contents he's selling to a represen... Read More about Zone

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world Winner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award As night f... Read More about Compass

"A tremendous accomplishment. . . . nard's Zone is, in short, one of the best books of the year"--Daily Beast Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Grou... Read More about Street of Thieves