Mathias Enard


Perfecting the Shot

Enard, Mathias | PERFECTING THE SHOT


En debutroman som utforskar hur extremt våld påverkar själen och moral i en krigshärjad stad.

  • En skarp skildring av extrem våld.

  • Följ en tonårsskytt i en krigshärjad stad.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2026.

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-24

Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9781804272633

Omfång: 172 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-24

Förlagets information

Now published in English for the first time, Mathias Enard's debut novel exposes how extreme violence corrodes the soul and leaves no part of life unscathed.

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatized mother cowers in their flat. But the violence eats away at any sense of morality as he kills civilians and combatants indiscriminately, for the sake of killing itself. His routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother, and his increasingly disturbing obsession with her soon threatens to push them all into the abyss. Now appearing in English more than twenty years after its original publication, Mathias Enard's debut novel is a timeless study of how extreme violence corrodes the soul, tracking the convulsions of a brutalized mind in spare, unflinching prose.

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