Hear our defeats / Laurent Gaudé ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaudé, Laurent, author.

Contributor:

Anderson, Alison, translator.

Standardized Title:

Écoutez nos défaites. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Intelligence officers--Fiction.

Intelligence officers.

Women archaeologists--Fiction.

Women archaeologists.

Genre:

Fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Spy fiction.

Physical Description:

249 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2019.

Summary:

"A French intelligence officer is tasked with tracking down a former member of the U.S. Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the war in Afghanistan. On his way 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 stylish meditations on humankind's bellicose history: Hannibal's failed march on Rome ; Grant's pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; and Emperor Haile Selassie's swift retreat from Ethiopia. Each one a turning point in world history, each revealing a different facet of how nations and individuals face defeat"--inside flap of front cover.

Notes:

Original title: Écoutez nos défaites, ©2016, by Editions Actes Sud. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson ; translation copyright ©2019 by Europa Editions.

Related Work:

Translation of: Gaudé, Laurent. Écoutez nos défaites.

ISBN:

9781609455002

1609455002

OCLC:

1041903584