Zone

Enard, Mathias

ISBN 10: 180427173X / ISBN 13: 9781804271735

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024

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496 pages. 7.68x4.53x1.26 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zone
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 180427173X
• ISBN 13: 9781804271735
• Binding: Paperback / Softback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.35 kilograms

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Synopsis

Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing a wealth of information about the war criminals, terrorists and arms dealers of the Zone – the Mediterranean region, from Barcelona to Beirut, from Algiers to Trieste, which has become his speciality – to sell to the Vatican. Exhausted by alcohol and amphetamines, he revisits the violent history of the Zone and his own participation in that violence, beginning as a mercenary fighting for a far-right Croatian militia in the 1990s. One of the truly original books of the decade, and written as a single, hypnotic, propulsive, physically irresistible sentence, Mathias Enard’s Zone is an Iliad for our time, an extraordinary and panoramic view of violent conflict and its consequences in the twentieth century and beyond