# Zone

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- Authors: [Mathias Enard](https://www.bookquiver.com/mathias-enard), [Charlotte Mandell](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlotte-mandell)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2024-12-05
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing a wealth of information about the war criminals, terrorists and arms dealers of the Zone – the Mediterranean region, from Barcelona to Beirut, from Algiers to Trieste, which has become his speciality – to sell to the Vatican. Exhausted by alcohol and amphetamines, he revisits the violent history of the Zone and his own participation in that violence, beginning as a mercenary fighting for a far-right Croatian militia in the 1990s. One of the truly original books of the decade, and written as a single, hypnotic, propulsive, physically irresistible sentence, Mathias Enard’s Zone is an Iliad for our time, an extraordinary and panoramic view of violent conflict and its consequences in the twentieth century and beyond

## Editions

### Zone

- Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- ISBN: 978-18-0427-173-5
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2024-12-05
- Language: en_US