"Elegant" --"Marie Claire"
"Funny and revelatory." --"New York Times Book Review"
"Deeply accessible, deeply moving." --"Los Angeles Times"
"The Polish Boxer" covers a vast landscape of human experience
while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make
sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his
numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his
forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and
filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in
Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that
he can't find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark
Twain conference. Drawn to what lies beyond the range of reason,
they all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through
humor, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Across his encounters with
each of them, the narrator--a Guatemalan literature professor and
writer named Eduardo Halfon--pursues his most enigmatic subject:
himself.
Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by a legacy
of violence and exile, "The Polish Boxer "marks the debut of a
major new Latin American voice in English.
Eduardo Halfon has been cited as among the best young Latin
American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogota and is the recipient
of Spain's prestigious Jose Maria de Pereda Prize for the Short
Novel. In 2011 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue the
story of "The Polish Boxer," which is his first novel to be
published in English. He travels frequently to his native Guatemala
and lives in Nebraska.
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