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1914

Author: Jean Echenoz

Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

2016 Longlist

Jean Echenoz turns his attention to the deathtrap of World War I in 1914. In it, five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in this brilliant novel is the Great War itself. Echenoz, whose work has been compared to that of writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad and Laurence Sterne, leads us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the relentless-and, one hundred years later, still unthinkable-carnage of trench warfare.

With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with an irony that is both witty and clear-eyed, Echenoz offers us an intimate epic: in the panorama of a clear blue sky, a biplane spirals suddenly into the ground; a piece of shrapnel shears the top off a man’s head as if it were a soft-boiled egg; we dawdle dreamily in a spring-scented clearing with a lonely shell-shocked soldier strolling innocently toward a firing squad ready to shoot him for desertion.

Ultimately, the grace notes of humanity in 1914 rise above the terrors of war in this beautifully crafted tale that Echenoz tells with discretion, precision, and love.

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About the Author

Jean Echenoz won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone. He is the author of eleven novels in English translation-including 1914, Big Blondes, Lightning, Piano, Ravel, and Running-and the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Médicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris.

Librarians’ Comments

If it is possible to write a beautiful, but truthful and raw book about The Great War, World War 1, then Echenoz has accomplished it in the most concise and horrifying manner.

In very few pages, Echenoz manages to convey the sadness, the horror, and the consequences of World War 1 in France.

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Author

Jean Echenoz

Country

FR

Nominating Library

Los Angeles Public Library, USA

Publisher

The New Press, USA

Translation

Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

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