Street Of Thieves - Softcover

Enard, Mathias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940953014 ISBN 13: 9781940953014

Publisher: Open Letter, 2014

Synopsis

Finalist for the Prix Goncourt, Mathias Enard's coming-of-age novel takes place against the Arab Spring and Spain's financial collapse.

About this title

About the Author

Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.

Charlotte Mandell has translated works from a number of important French authors, including Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, and Blanchot, among others. She received a Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her translation of Énard's Zone along with a French Voices grant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Letter
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1940953014
• ISBN 13: 9781940953014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350