Description: Mathias Enard's first novel, finally in English, is a ruthless demonstration of how violence corrupts the soul
Brief description:
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), Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Zone, and Street of Thieves.
Review Quotes: All of Énard's books share the hope of transposing prose into the empyrean of pure sound, where words can never correspond to stable meanings. He's the composer of a discomposing age--Joshua Cohen "The New York Times Book Review"