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The deserters

"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 the r...

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Main Author: Énard, Mathias, 1972- (Author)
Other Authors: Mandell, Charlotte (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : New Directions Publishing, 2025.
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Summary:"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 the renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist, anti-fascist, and a survivor of Buchenwald"--
Item Description:"Originally published in French as Déserter by Actes Sud in 2023."--Title page verso.
Physical Description:pages ; cm
ISBN:9780811239011
0811239012
Author Notes:Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori, and shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize); The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild ; Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants ; Zone ; and Street of Thieves . A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Charlotte Mandell has translated over fifty books from the French, including works by Flaubert, Proust, and Genet. In 2001 she received a translation prize from the Modern Language Association for her translation of Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot, in 2018 she won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard, in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2026 she received the French American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of The Deserters by Mathias Énard. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.

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