Boussole / By Mathias Enard

By:

Enard, Mathias

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Arles : Actes Sud , 2015.Description: 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9782330053123

Subject(s):

Orientalism -- Fiction

DDC classification:

843.92

LOC classification:

PQ2705.N273 B6813

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Tom Poung Campus TTP Secondary Fiction Bookshelves	Fiction	ENA 843.92 PQ2705.N273 B6813 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	2025-1394

"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.

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