Name: Hear our Defeats (en Inglés)
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Author: Gaudé, Laurent ; Anderson, Alison
ISBN: 9781609455002

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Laurent Gaudé

Traducido por

Alison Anderson

Editorial

Europa Editions

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.8 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781609455002

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Ficción biográfica
Thriller sobre espías y espionaje
Novelas de aventuras militares, de guerra y de combate

Hear our Defeats (en Inglés)

Laurent Gaudé (Autor) · Alison Anderson (Traducido por) · Europa Editions · Tapa Blanda

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A "propulsive" historical novel about the battles--won, lost, and ongoing--that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review). Assem, a French intelligence officer, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the US Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the war in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut, he shares a night with Mariam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artifacts across the Middle East from the destruction wreaked by ISIS.Woven into these two forceful, gripping storylines are meditations on humankind's bellicose history--Hannibal's failed march on Rome and the burning of his fleet on the waters of the Mediterranean; Grant's pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; and Emp. Haile Selassie's swift retreat from Ethiopia: all turning points in world history, each showing a different facet of how nations and individuals face defeat.This novel is filled with both a philosophical sensibility and a riveting immediacy, seamlessly taking us across the battlefields of our past to reflect on the implications of conflicts being waged today. "Hear Our Defeats is not a conventional historical novel, in the sense of trying to recreate the past imaginatively. Rather, it draws on a series of past episodes, from four discrete epochs--deliberately separated in time and place--to convey a message about time, violence and humanity."--The Times Literary Supplement