Perfecting the Shot

Mathias Enard

Charlotte Mandell

• Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell.
• The first English translation of the debut novel by Mathias Enard, winner of the 2015 Goncourt Prize and 2017 International Booker Prize shortlistee.
• Narrated by a sniper in an unknown city torn apart by conflict, Perfecting the Shot is an unsettling and timely tale of the corrosive effects of violence on the soul, and an excoriation of male rage in the vein of Adolescence.
• Mathias Enard’s works have sold almost 30,000 copies to date in the UK.
  Comps: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.