Compass

Mathias Enard

Compass
Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country
United States
Published
13 April 2018
Pages
448
ISBN
9780811227476

Compass

Mathias Enard

On the shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize

As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East.

With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Enard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie-and binds them together in a most magical way. 

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