Isbn: 9780992974701 - zone (1 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 528 pages. Francis Mirkovi?, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggag e 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 speciali ty - 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, begi nning 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, p ropulsive, physically irresistible sentence, Mathias Enard's Zone is an Iliad fo r our time, an extraordinary and panoramic view of violent conflict and its cons equences in the twentieth century and beyond. …