{"product_id":"the-deserters-9780811239011","title":"The Deserters","description":"A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness--he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, aboard a small cruise ship, a scientific conference takes place to pay tribute to renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald.The tension grows between these two narrative threads, and--pulled together in Mathias ?nard's enchanting, brilliant, erudite prose--time itself seems to become tightly interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics, loyalty and belief, hope and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnard, Mathias:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mathias ?nard is the author of \u003cem\u003eCompass\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori, and shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize); \u003cem\u003eThe Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eTell Them of Battles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKings, and Elephants\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eZone\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eStreet of Thieves\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMandell, Charlotte:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, Mandell has translated works by a number of important French authors, including Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, and Blanchot.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276881101074,"sku":"9780811239011","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f3cb3d8-fec0-451d-b354-54ab5219e73b.jpg?v=1747144005","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-deserters-9780811239011","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}