Shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize A novel of
philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the
here-and-now, Andrés Neuman's Traveller of the Century is a
journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most exciting
South-American writers of our time. 'Every year hundreds of books
are published but rarely comes a book that reminds us of why we
loved reading in the first place, that innermost quest for words
and dreams. Traveller of the Century is a literary gem' Elif Shafak
A traveller stops off for the night in the mysterious city of
Wandernburg. He intends to leave the following day, but the city
begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting geography. When
Hans befriends an old organ grinder, and falls in love with Sophie,
the daughter of a local merchant, he finds it impossible to leave.
Through a series of memorable encounters with starkly different
characters, Neuman takes the reader on a hypothetical journey back
into post-Napoleonic Europe, subtly evoking its parallels with our
modern era. At the heart of the novel lies the love story between
Sophie and Hans. They are both translators, and between
dictionaries and bed, bed and dictionaries,they gradually build up
their own fragile common language. Through their relationship
Neuman explores the idea that all love is an act of translation,
and that all translation is an act of love. 'A beautiful,
accomplished novel: as ambitious as it is generous, as moving as it
is smart' — Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Guardian A big, utterly
captivating murder mystery and love story, full of history and
politics and the hottest sex in contemporary fiction — Daily
Telegraph 'A thought-provoking historical romance, in which sex and
philosophy mingle to delightful effect.' — Ángel Gurría
Quintana, Financial Times, Best Books of 2012 Novel of the century
— Lawrence Norfolk Andrés Neuman (b.1977) was born in Buenos
Aires and later moved to Granada, Spain. Selected as one of Granta
magazine's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, Neuman was
included in the Hay Festival's Bogotá 39 list. He has published
numerous novels, short stories, essays and poetry collections. He
received the Hiperión Prize for Poetry for El tobogán, and
Traveller of the Century won the Alfaguara Prize and the National
Critics Prize in 2009.
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