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In 1946 during the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw the clumsy looking man on the poster for Czechoslovakia. But as he accelerated during the 5000 metre race and crossed the finish line alone, the spectators exploded into cheers. Émil...

During the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw Émil Zapotek. But after two Olympic Games he seemed invincible, not even the Czechoslovakian regime could stop him. Émil runs against decadence, and he smiles, even in the Uranium mines where he...

The last years of Maurice Ravel occurred between1927 and 1937. With a writing that channels jazz and cinematographic narrative, Echenoz undertakes a fictional portrait of the composer full of biographical truths: the epic events in Verdun, the sixty shirts, the twenty five pairs of...