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Fracture (Paperback)
Andres Neuman; Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
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R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
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A survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima,
Mr Watanabe has evaded the memory for most of his nomadic life.
When the 2011 earthquake strikes, triggering the Fukushima nuclear
disaster, the past becomes the present, and Mr Watanabe begins a
journey that will change everything. Written with intimacy and
compassion, Fracture is a remarkable novel about collective trauma,
love and the complexities of human life.
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Bariloche (Paperback)
Andres Neuman; Translated by Robin Myers
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R411
R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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Fracture (Paperback)
Andres Neuman; Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
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R518
R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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Talking to Ourselves (Paperback)
Andres Neuman; Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
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R421
R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
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A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original
voicesOne trip. Two love stories. Three voices.
Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather
when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to
create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime, takes him on
a road trip in a truck called Pedro. But Lito doesn't know that
this might be their last trip: Mario is gravely ill. Together,
father and son embark on a journey takes them through strange
geographies that seem to meld the different parts of the
Spanish-speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother, Elena,
restlessly seeks support in books, and soon undertakes an adventure
of her own that will challenge her moral limits. Each narrative--of
father, son, and mother--embodies one of the different ways that we
talk to ourselves: through speech, through thought, and through
writing. While neither of them dares to tell the complete truth to
the other two, their individual voices nonetheless form a poignant
conversation.
Sooner or later, we all face loss. Andres Neuman movingly narrates
the ways the lives of those who survive loss are transformed; how
that experience changes our ideas about time, memory, and our own
bodies; and how the acts of reading, and of sex, can serve as
powerful modes of resistance. "Talking to Ourselves" presents a
tender yet unsentimental portrait of the workings of love and
family; a reflection both on grief and on the consolation of words.
Neuman, the author of the award-winning "Traveler of the Century,"
displays his characteristic warmth, bittersweet humor, and
wide-ranging intellect, giving us the rich, textured, and
strikingly different voices and experiences of three singular
characters while presenting, above all, a profound tribute to those
who have ever had to care for a loved one.
"The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to
Neuman." --Roberto Bolano
Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small
city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. 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.
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. 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.
"Traveler of the Century "is a deeply intellectual novel,
chock-full of discussions about philosophy, history, literature,
love, and translation. It is a book that looks to the past in order
to have us reconsider the conflicts of our present. The winner of
Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize,
"Traveler of the Century "marks the English-language debut of
Andres Neuman, a writer described by Roberto Bolano as being
"touched by grace."
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