{"product_id":"9781804271735","title":"Zone - Charlotte Mandell","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlotte Mandell","offers":[{"title":"496 pages \/ 05\/12\/2024 \/ Fiction in translation","offer_id":57264110436727,"sku":"9781804271735","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804271735","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}