Zone

by Mathias Enard

Translator Charlotte Mandell (Translator) and Brian Evenson (Introduction)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1934824836
  • ISBN13 9781934824832
  • Publish Date 1 September 2013 (first published 30 December 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Open Letter
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 517
  • Language English