Compass

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic worldOn the shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker InternationalPrizeAs night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran,…