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0 reviews“Beautifully wrought in its simplicity—credit must go to Charlotte Mandell’s translation—with a perfectly paced narrative that reaches a dramatic denouement…Énard’s taut prose carries the reader swiftly & satisfyingly through chapters (which are more like fragments, really) to the extent that one does not wish for the tale to end.” — Irish Times
An adventure of Michelangelo in Constantinople from the "mesmerizing" (New Yorker) & "masterful" (Washington Post) 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, & you will give the world a monument without equal."
Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II—whose commission he leaves unfinished—and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching & describing his impressions along the way, & becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork.
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, & Elephants—constructed from real historical fragments—is a thrilling page-turner about why stories are told, why bridges are built, & how seemingly unmatched fragments, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.
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Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, & the Premio von Rezzori, & shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize), Zone, Street of Thieves & The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild. He is also a translator from Persian & Arabic.
