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Mathias Enard - Perfecting the Shot, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Perfecting the Shot

Av Mathias Enard

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In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatized mother cowers in their flat. The violence eats away at any sense of morality as he kills civilians and combatants indiscriminately, for the sake of killing itself. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother, and his increasingly disturbing obsession with her soon threatens to push them all into the abyss. Now appearing in English more than twenty years after its original publication, Mathias Enard’s debut novel is a timeless study of how extreme violence corrodes the soul, tracking the convulsions of a brutalized mind in spare, unflinching prose.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-24
  • Mått: 125 x 197 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 230 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 172
  • Förlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • ISBN: 9781804272633
  • Översättare: Charlotte Mandell
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Mathias Enard, born in 1972, studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée and the Prix du Roman-News for Street of Thieves. He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, the 2017 Leipziger Book Award for European Understanding, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for Compass. Perfecting the Shot is his seventh novel to appear with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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‘Mandell’s translation keeps pace with the breathlessness of Enard's writhing prose.... Perfecting the Shot [delves] into the psyche of its young protagonist – with all its disturbing contradictions, of startling tenderness and cold vengeance. The complete immersion in that psyche verges on the claustrophobic, but therein lies the power of the narrative.’— Esmé O'Keeffe, Financial Times

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