#RivetingReviews: Tom Taylor reviews THE DESERTERS by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
Mathias Énard is the defining novelist of Schengen-era Europe: its most lyrical cartographer and its fiercest critic. His proto-modernist works feature the transnational destinies
Another novel by Enard that creates a world that you don’t want to leave. A thoughtful interrogation of modern academic Orientalism, with a wealth of delightful historical facts
If you are looking for a coherent plot, this book is not for you. Mathias Enard’s Zone consists of one 500-word sentence containing the thoughts of Francis Mirković, who was for
