{"product_id":"hear-our-defeats-paperback","title":"Hear Our Defeats - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaurent Gaudé\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlison Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"propulsive\" historical novel about the battles--won, lost, and ongoing--that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAssem, a French intelligence officer, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the US Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the war in Afghanistan. En route 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.\u003cbr\u003eWoven into these two forceful, gripping storylines are meditations on humankind's bellicose history--Hannibal's failed march on Rome and the burning of his fleet on the waters of the Mediterranean; Grant's pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; and Emp. Haile Selassie's swift retreat from Ethiopia: all turning points in world history, each showing a different facet of how nations and individuals face defeat.\u003cbr\u003eThis novel is filled with both a philosophical sensibility and a riveting immediacy, seamlessly taking us across the battlefields of our past to reflect on the implications of conflicts being waged today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHear Our Defeats\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurent Gaudé\u003c\/b\u003e is a French novelist and playwright. After being nominated for the 2002 Prix Concourt with \u003ci\u003eThe Death of King Tsongor\u003c\/i\u003e, he won the award in 2004 for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sun of the Scorta\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Elegance of the Hedgehog\u003c\/i\u003e (Europa, 2008) and \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Elves\u003c\/i\u003e (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693135073343,"sku":"9781609455002","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/82adf0f60c805d2d1f1640786ffdf90d.webp?v=1764997881","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/hear-our-defeats-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}