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Hear Our Defeats
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ISBN10: 1609455002
ISBN13: 9781609455002
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: Jan 22 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781609455002
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: Jan 22 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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
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
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