6 Ergebnisse.

In 1506, Michelangelo-a young but already renowned sculptor-is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design has been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal." Michelangelo, after some ...

A young but already-renowned sculptor in 1506 is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to build a bridge over the Golden Horn where predecessor Leonardo da Vinci's plans have been rejected. From the author of "Compass".

In 1506, Michelangelo-a young but already renowned sculptor-is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design had been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal." Michelangelo, after some ...

Finalist for the Prix Goncourt, Mathias Enard's coming-of-age novel takes place against the Arab Spring and Spain's financial collapse.

Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. 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.

Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell, this novel from the author of "Street Of Thieves" and "Zone" won the 2015 Prix Goncourt.