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French agent of Croatian origin Francis Servain Mirkovi´c is now a middle-aged man prone to depression and alcoholism after years spent in a web of relationships full of terror and violence in the Mediterranean basin, which he calls his “Zone”, where he served for the French Intelligence Service. For the last five years, he has devoted himself to collecting classified documents about political and military murders and massacres in his Zone, using the opportunities provided by his official duty. Mirkovi´c intends to deliver the documents to the “eternity experts” in the Vatican and then start a new life with his new fake identity and lover who does not know about his past. However, along this train route between Milan and Rome, stretching towards the “end of the world”, the stories in the “suitcase full of dead”, the family history wrapped in migrations and wars, his own war trauma and dark past haunt his mind.

The author attributes special importance to the history and geography of Turkey with his narratives from the stories of the last period of the Ottoman Empire, which he calls “the brightest and most beautiful empire of the Mediterranean”, to his descriptions of Istanbul, from the conquest of Istanbul to the Battle of Gallipoli, from the fate of the Ottoman Jews to the holiday villages on the Mediterranean coast.

This single-sentence “great novel” by Goncourt award-winning author Mathias Enard, who says “I tried to create a contemporary epic”, which is described as a “literary shock”, just like the epic Iliad he frequently mentions, remains in our minds as one of the most competent and successful examples of contemporary literature with its extraordinary rhythm and original style that manages to refine the terrifying and make it magnificent. will take its place on our shelves.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type : 2. Dough

Number of Pages : 512

First Printing Year : 2017

Number of Prints : 1. Edition