Bøger af Mathias Enard

Skrevet på kanten af det arabiske forår, om en ung marokkaners vaklen mellem religiøs vækkelse og vestlig frihed. Mellem radikalisering og en kriminel løbebane. Den unge mand udstødes af sin familie og starter en mindre Odyssé i Nordafrika og Spanien. En fortælling om identitet og drømme i en moderne verden, hvor tradition og fremtidshåb kæmper med og mod hinanden.Han er ung, han er marokkaner, født og opvokset i Tanger, han er muslim til husbehov og tørster efter frihed og oplevelser i et samfund, der stort set ingen muligheder giver. I skolen har han lært et par spanske brokker og fransk nok til at proppe sig med noir-krimier. De sidste teenageår går med at fable om kusinen Meryems bryster. Det ender med, at han går i seng med hende - en enkelt gang, kun én, men de bliver taget på fersk gerning, han bliver gennembanket af sin far og smidt ud. Dér står han alene på gaden uden en øre på lommen, uden at ane, hvor han skal gå hen ...

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.

Vinder af den franske Prix Goncourt, den italienske Premio Von Rezzori og den tyske Leipzig Prize samt shortlistet til Den internationale Man Booker Pris 2017. Den franske forfatter Mathias Enards gennembrudsroman. Mens natten falder på over Wien, ligger musikologen Franz Ritter søvnløs i sin seng og glider ind og ud af drømme og minder. Han har fået dårlige nyheder fra sin læge og genbesøger nu de vigtigste kapitler i sit liv: den vedvarende fascination af Mellemøsten, de mange rejser til Istanbul, Aleppo, Damaskus og Teheran og mødet med kunstnere, akademikere og orientalister. I centrum står den store kærlighed til Sarah, en rasende intelligent fransk akademiker fanget i de intrikate spændinger mellem Europa og Mellemøsten. Mathias Énard skriver lyrisk, intellektuelt og berusende om mødet mellem øst og vest. ”En fantastisk, flygtig og excentrisk kærlighedserklæring til Mellemøstlig kunst og kultur” - Los Angeles Review of Books

In Tangier, young Lakhdar finds himself homeless after being caught in flagrante with his cousin Meryem. As the political and religious tensions in the Mediterranean flare up with the Arab Spring and the global financial crisis, Lakhdar and his friend Bassam entertain dreams of emigration, fuelled by a desire for freedom and a better life. Part political thriller, part road-movie, part romance, the latest novel by Mathias Enard takes us from the violence of Tangier's streets to Barcelona's louche Raval quarter. Street of Thieves is an intense coming-of-age story that delves deep into the brutal realities of the immigrant experience.'

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017. 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 centre 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. An immersive, nocturnal, musical novel, full of generous erudition and bittersweet humour, COMPASS is a journey and a declaration of admiration, a quest for the otherness inside us all and a hand reaching out - like a bridge between West and East, yesterday and tomorrow. Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, this is Mathias Enard's most ambitious novel since ZONE.

One of the truly original books of the decadewritten as a single, hypnotic, propulsive, physically irresistible sentenceZone tells the story of a French Intelligence agent on his way to the Vatican to sell a briefcase of secrets. Over the course of his train ride, he thinks back over his life and all the damage he's caused in this violent century.