Beschreibung:
Mathias Énard, geboren 1972 in Niort (Westfrankreich), Studium der Kunstgeschichte und der orientalischen Sprachen, lebt, nach längeren Aufenthalten im Nahen Osten, heute in Barcelona, wo er Arabisch lehrt.
Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell, this novel from the author of "Street Of Thieves" and "Zone" won the 2015 Prix Goncourt.
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 as an Orientalist.