The Deserters

Mathias Énard

ISBN 10: 1804271632 / ISBN 13: 9781804271636

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025

About this Item

1st edition, 1st printing paperback original with integral dustjacket (french flaps), no hardcover issued by the publisher. Book in fine condition with no inscriptions, spine uncreased. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1773051871448

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Deserters
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1804271632
• ISBN 13: 9781804271636
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Dimensions: 1.32W x 12.5H x 19.71D centimeters 1.32 centimeters width by 12.5 centimeters height by 19.71 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

Fleeing a nameless war, a soldier emerges from the Mediterranean scrubland, filthy, exhausted and seeking refuge. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he puts on a life. On 11 September 2001, aboard a small cruise ship near Berlin, a scientific conference pays tribute to the late Paul Heudeber, an East German mathematician, Buchenwald survivor, communist and anti-fascist whose commitment to his side of the Wall was unshaken by its collapse. The oblique pull between these two narratives – a cipher in itself – brings to light everything that is at stake in times of conflict: truth and deception, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair. Superbly translated by Charlotte Mandell and told in Mathias Enard’s typically mesmerizing, inventive prose, The Deserters lays bare the ravages of war on the most intimate aspects of life – and asks what remains of our selves in its wreckage.