Description: From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an epic, furious novel that shows the dangers of ideology and the aftermath of war
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); The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild; Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants; Zone; and Street of Thieves.
Review Quotes: A novelist of Europe's real and imaginative frontiers, Mathias Énard's The Deserters, his twelfth novel and sixth to be translated into English, bears the marks of its own interrupted composition with unusual vividness; historical events broke it open like the burst of a shell.--Nicholas Dames "Harper's"