About the author
Mathias Énard is a French novelist and translator whose work is shaped by long study of Arabic and Persian and by an interest in the movement of people, books, music, and violence between Europe and the Middle East.
Zone, Street of Thieves, Compass, and The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers range widely in form. The Deserters brings a wartime flight together with an intellectual history unfolding around September 2001.
Where to start
Start with The Deserters for Énard’s paired narratives of war and twentieth-century ideas, or Compass for the novel that received the Prix Goncourt.
