Hear Our Defeats by Laurent Gaude (English) Paperback Book

Description: Hear Our Defeats by Laurent Gaude, Alison Anderson A French intelligence officer, Assem, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the U.S. Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the War in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut he shares a night with Miriam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artefacts across the Middle East from the terrorist group I FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description On a mission to capture and interrogate a corrupt American soldier, a spy meets a woman trying to save as many cultural artifacts from desecration as she can. Hear Our Defeats is a novel about the battles that define us. The battles lost, won, and those still being fought.A French intelligence officer, Assem, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the U.S. Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the War in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut he shares a night with Miriam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artifacts across the Middle East from the terrorist group ISIS.Punctuating these two storylines are vignettes from the bellicose past, including: Hannibals failed march on Rome and the burning of his fleet on the waters of the Mediterranean; Grants pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; Robert E. Lees surrender at Appomatox Courthouse; and Emperor Haile Selassies exile from his country of Ethiopia. All turning points in world history, each showing a will to continue in the face of defeat. Author Biography Laurent Gaudé is a French novelist and playwright. After being nominated for the 2002 Prix Concourt with The Death of King Tsongor, he won the award in 2004 for his novel The Sun of the Scorta. Alison Andersons translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery. Review Praise for Hear Our Defeats "In packed yet propulsive language, Prix Goncourt winner Gaudé (The House of Scorta) considers what war does to humanity. [...] Highly recommended for smart readers." --Library Journal (Starred Review) "As a story, Gaudés latest is a modest accomplishment itself, but it is rich in philosophical possibilities that make it memorable." --Kirkus Reviews "Hear Our Defeats smells of blood and gunpowder - yet we follow Gaudé and his characters into their respective hells. He is a shrewd novelist: his prose pleases through élan and a persuasive affinity for its subject - but something else is bleeding out." --Ron Slate "Hear Our Defeats is not a conventional historical novel, in the sense of trying to recreate the past imaginatively. Rather, it draws on a series of past episodes, from four discrete epochs - deliberately separated in time and place - to convey a message about time, violence and humanity."--TLS "Hear Our Defeats is a grand poem, a crazy and wise book. Crazy because the reader gets carried away by all the voices and some unknown magic, if not by Gaudés restrained lyricism." --Le Figaro Littéraire "Laurent Gaudé knows how to write with composure. His book, in which the very pulse of the world can be felt, reminds us of our duty not to despise our own fatigue. If for nothing more than this, its melancholic way of showing us what dominates us, it is of interest to the historian of power. Because literature, whether reserved or passionate, only becomes historic in order to bring us the news of our own history in the making." --Le Monde des Livres "Urgent, epic, this philosophical novel encourages both lucidity and humility, to try to save what beauty is left in the world." --Les Echos "In its humanistic breath and scope, as well as its literary challenge/audaciousness, Hear Our Defeats by Laurent Gaudé is a great book. An Iliad for our times, which tends to contemplate history from the losers side." --LEcho de Bruxelles "A hopeful and probing literary gem by Goncourt Prize-winner, Laurent Gaude?, Hear Our Defeats is a dignified plea to engage with History." --Midwest Book Review Review Quote Praise for Hear Our Defeats "In packed yet propulsive language, Prix Goncourt winner Gaud Description for Sales People Marketing & Publicity * Author Tour (Montreal + NYC events) * Pen World Voices Festival 2019 * Academic promotion * Early outreach to history, political, and military/veterans communities * Librarian promotion * Reading Group Guide available * National media campaign including New York Times , Wall Street Journal , The New Republic , The Nation , New York Review of Books , New Yorker , Esquire , Vogue , Harpers , The Paris Review , Francophile, military-focused, philosophical, political, and historical publications. * Placement of excerpt, profile, and interviews * Galleys available / e-Galley available on Edelweiss Contact Info Publicity and Author Events Rachael Small Details ISBN1609455002 Author Alison Anderson Pages 224 Publisher Europa Editions Year 2019 Translator Alison Anderson ISBN-10 1609455002 ISBN-13 9781609455002 Format Paperback Imprint Europa Editions Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 843.92 Language English AU Release Date 2019-02-07 NZ Release Date 2019-02-07 UK Release Date 2019-02-07 Audience General Publication Date 2019-01-22 US Release Date 2019-01-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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