{"product_id":"9781804271636","title":"The Deserters - Charlotte Mandell","description":"\u003cp\u003eFleeing a nameless war, a soldier emerges from the Mediterranean scrubland, filthy, exhausted and seeking refuge. A chance meeting forces him to rethink his journey, and the price he puts on a life. On 11 September 2001, aboard a small cruise ship near Berlin, a scientific conference pays tribute to the late Paul Heudeber, an East German mathematician, Buchenwald survivor, communist and anti-fascist whose commitment to his side of the Wall was unshaken by its collapse. The oblique pull between these two narratives - a cipher in itself - brings to light everything that is at stake in times of conflict: truth and deception, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair. Superbly translated by Charlotte Mandell and told in Mathias Enard's typically mesmerizing, inventive prose,�The Deserters�lays bare the ravages of war on the most intimate aspects of life - and asks what remains of our selves in its wreckage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlotte Mandell","offers":[{"title":"224 pages \/ 08\/05\/2025 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56970867245431,"sku":"9781804271636","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781804271636.jpg?v=1781000521","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804271636","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}