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Author Énard, Mathias, 1972- author.

Title Compass / Mathias Énard ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.

Publication Info. New York : New Directions, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F ENARD, M.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F ENARD, MATHIAS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F ENARD MATHIAS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-ENARD    Check Shelf
Description 447 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in French as Boussole by Acres Sud in 2015 (verso of title page).
Contents On the divers forms of lunacie in the orient -- Orientalists in love -- Caravan of cross-dressers -- Gangrene & tuberculosis -- Portraits of Orientalists as Commanders of the Faithful -- Encyclopedia of the decapitated.
Summary "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 intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East"--Amazon.com.
Language Translated from the French.
Subject Dreams -- Fiction.
Insomniacs -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Philosophical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Added Author Mandell, Charlotte, translator.
Added Title Boussole. English
Translation Of: Translation of: Énard, Mathias, 1972- Boussole. 1re édition. Arles : Actes Sud, 2015 9782330053123 (DLC) 2015484946 (OCoLC)919467107
ISBN 9780811226622 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
081122662X (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
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