by Mathias Enard · Baltos lankos · tapa dura · ISBN 9786094793691
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«Vagių gatvė» is the novel by Mathias Enard published by Baltos lankos in hardback (288 pages, in Lithuanian).
Lakdaras, a young man from Tangier, dreams of Europe, but his family rejects him for his feelings towards his cousin Meriem and he ends up on Carrer Robadors in Barcelona. Between jobs as a digitizer of French books and assistant to a corpse collector, he matures as the Arab Spring and Catalan independence struggles unfold.
Lithuanian translation by Violeta Tauragienė; the novel was originally published as «Rue des voleurs» in 2012. This edition is from November 2020.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in immigration, uprootedness, and today's Europe.
Mathias Énard is a French writer and translator. He is the recipient of several literary awards, including the Prix Goncourt in 2015, for his novel Compass. Since 2020, he has produced and hosted a literary program on France Culture.
