The winner of Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, Traveler of the Century marks the English-language debut of Andrés Neuman, a writer described by Roberto Bolaño as being "touched by grace.
It is a book that looks to the past in order to have us reconsider the conflicts of our present. Traveler of the Century is a deeply intellectual novel, chock-full of discussions about philosophy, history, literature, love, and translation. Though she is engaged to be married, Sophie and Hans begin a relationship that defies contemporary mores about female sexuality and what can and cannot be said about it. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town, including a young freethinker named Sophie. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate-on identity and what it is that defines us-from which he cannot break free. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 30 (528p) ISBN 978-9-3 From the Argentina-born Neuman, winner of. Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. Traveler of the Century BUY THIS BOOK Traveler of the Century Andrs Neuman.
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