Description: Title: Hear Our Defeats Author: Gaudé, Laurent Publisher: Europa Editions Binding: Paperback Pages: 224 Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.00d Product Weight: 0.7 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781609455002 A "propulsive" historical novel about the battles--won, lost, and ongoing--that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review). Assem, 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.Woven 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.This 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. "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."--The Times Literary Supplement Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Hear Our Defeats
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Europa Editions, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: War & Military, Thrillers / Suspense
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Laurent Gaude
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
