Compass
Mathias Énard's Prix Goncourt winning novel, translated by Charlotte Mandell, about a sleepless night in Vienna and a musicologist's memories of the Orient.
Compass is a novel by Mathias Énard, published in French in 2015 as Boussole, which won the Prix Goncourt. During a sleepless night in Vienna, the musicologist Franz Ritter looks back on his life, his university career, his stays in the Orient and his love, Sarah. Charlotte Mandell’s English translation was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. This New Directions paperback runs to 448 pages.
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