Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell, Open Letter (Univ. of Nebraska, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (517p) ISBN 978-1-934824-26-9
Homeric in its scope and grandeur, remarkable in its detail, Énard's American debut is a screaming take on history, war, and violence. Francis Servain Mirkovic, the son of a French father and a Croatian mother, is a spy whose job it is to resell...
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Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell. Open Letter (www.openletterbooks.org), $15.95 trade paper (203p) ISBN 978-1-940953-01-4
Set against a backdrop of rising Islamic extremism, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement, Énard’s (Zone) latest novel is a howling elegy for thwarted youth. The narrator, a young Moroccan called Lakhdar, spends his time in Tangier ogling girls...
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Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell. New Directions, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2662-2
This astonishing, encyclopedic, and otherwise outré meditation by Énard (Zone) on the cultural intersection of East and West takes the form of an insomniac’s obsessive imaginings—dreams, memories, and desires—which come to embody the content of a...
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Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell. New Directions, $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2704-9
Énard is known for his monolithic novels Zone and Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt), making his latest translation into English, a slim and studious volume, a surprising and exciting break from form. Set in 1506, it is the story of Michelangelo...
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