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»Mich hat dieses Buch fertiggemacht!« Thea Dorn

Für eine Dissertation über das Leben auf dem Land im 21. Jahrhundert zieht der Pariser Anthropologe David aufs Dorf, um Sitten und Bräuche der Landbevölkerung zu beobachten. Die Stille, die ständige Anwesenheit von Tieren aller Art, vor allem aber die überraschende Unangepasstheit sämtlicher Dorfcharaktere ziehen ihn in ihren Bann. Und bald ist er involvierter in das Landleben, als er es sich je hätte träumen lassen. Mathias Enard schreibt in kühner Fahrt durch Raum und Zeit mit komödiantischer Lust über...

"The novel of the decade, if not of the century."--Christophe Claro

Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He's carrying a briefcase whose contents he's selling to a representative from the Vatican; the briefcase contains a wealth of information about the violent history of the Zone--the lands of the Mediterranean basin, Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, Italy, that have become Mirkovic's specialty.

Over the course of a single night, Mirkovic visits the sites of...

"A tremendous accomplishment. . . . Enard's Zone is, in short, one of the best books of the year"--Daily Beast

Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangier not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.

Lakhdar's transformations--from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner--take place against some of the most important events...

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...