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"A 517-page single sentence novel about the violence of the twentieth century and an intelligence agent quitting the business."@en
"Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing a wealth of information about the war criminals, terrorists and arms dealers of the Zone - the Mediterranean region, from Barcelona to Beirut, from Algiers to Trieste, which has become his speciality - to sell to the Vatican. Exhausted by alcohol and amphetamines, he revisits the violent history of the Zone and his own participation in that violence, beginning as a mercenary fighting for a far-rig."@en
"Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing a wealth of information about the war criminals, terrorists and arms dealers of the Zone - the Mediterranean region, from Barcelona to Beirut, from Algiers to Trieste, which has become his speciality - to sell to the Vatican. Exhausted by alcohol and amphetamines, he revisits the violent history of the Zone and his own participation in that violence, beginning as a mercenary fighting for a far-right Croatian militia in the 1990s. One of the truly original books of the decade, and written as a single, hypnotic, propulsive, physically irresistible sentence, Mathias Enard's Zone is an Iliad for our time, an extraordinary and panoramic view of violent conflict and its consequences in the twentieth century and beyond."@en
"Novel in a Joycean mode of internal memories, untrammelled by sentence delimiters. Francis Servain Mirkovic takes a train ride from Milan to Rome, during which time he reflects on his life as a secret agent in major conflicts through Europe -- as well as various women he has met during that time."
"Francis Servain Mirkovi?c travels from Milan to Rome with a briefcase holding priceless information about the history of Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, and Italy, and soon learns that someone is willing to kill in order to keep the information secret."

genre

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"Spy stories"
"Romans (teksten)"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Electronic books"@en
"Electronic books"

name

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"Zona"
"Zona"@es
"Zona"@ca
"Zona"@it
"Zone [Arabic edition]"
"ha-Ezor"
"Zone : Roman"
"האזור"
"Zone : roman"
"Zone"@en
"Zone"
"Zone Roman"
"Zone roman"
"<&gt"@he

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