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Compass / Mathias Énard ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.

by Énard, Mathias, 1972-

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New Directions, 2017

Dreams -- Fiction

Insomniacs -- Fiction

Memory -- Fiction

9780811226622 (hc)

9780811227476 (trade pbk)

Boussole. English

447 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in French as Boussole by Actes Sud in 2015 (verso of title page).

"Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize"--Back cover.

Translated from the French.

"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"--Amazon.com.

Winner of the Prix Gouncourt (France).

Winner of the Leipzig Prize (Germany).

Winner of the Premeio von Rezzori (Italy).

Suspense fiction.

Historical fiction.

Philosophical fiction.

Literary fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Mandell, Charlotte.

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