num_pages: 517
description: Francis Servain Mirkovi a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. Hes carrying a briefcase whose contents hes selling to a representative from the Vatican; the briefcase contains a wealth of information about the violent history of the Zonethe lands of the Mediterranean basin Spain Algeria Lebanon Italy that have become Mirkovis specialty.Over the course of a single night Mirkovi visits the sites of these tragedies in his memory and recalls the damage that his own participation in that violenceas a soldier fighting for Croatia during the Balkan Warshas wreaked in his own life. Mirkovic hopes that this night will be his last in the Zone that this journey will expiate his sins and that he can disappear with Sashka the only woman he hasnt abandoned forever . . .One of the truly original books of the decadeand written as a single hypnotic propulsive physically irresistible sentenceMathias nards Zone provides an extraordinary and panoramic view of the turmoil that has long deviled the shores of the Mediterranean.
language: English
title: Zone
publisher: Open Letter