{"product_id":"the-deserters-by-mathias-enard-9781804271636","title":"The Deserters","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFleeing a nameless war, an unknown soldier emerges from deep within the Mediterranean scrubland, dirty and exhausted. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he puts on a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 11 September 2001, aboard a small cruise ship on the River Havel near Berlin, a conference of scientists pays homage to the late East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a Buchenwald survivor and steadfast antifascist who remained loyal to his side of the Berlin Wall despite the collapse of the Communist utopia, unaware that a new era of violence is about to descend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of the tension between these narratives, everything that is at stake in times of conflict – in love as in politics – comes to light: commitment and betrayal, loyalty and lucidity, hope and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuperbly translated by Charlotte Mandell, this latest work from Mathias Enard vividly lays bare the devastations of war on the most intimate aspects of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46832875045100,"sku":"9781804271636","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f7f00192e261a4ff1cd8e8f3cb718004.jpg?v=1758436167","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-deserters-by-mathias-enard-9781804271636","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}