Monasterio
By: Halfon, Eduardo [author.].
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BookPublisher: Barcelona, España Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. [2014]Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9788415625841; 8415625847.Subject(s): Jews -- Travel -- Fiction | College teachers -- Fiction | Self-realization -- Fiction | Authors -- Fiction | Spanish fiction -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Autobiographical fiction. | Fiction. | Electronic books.DDC classification: 863.7 | Fic Online resources: Disponible en Digitalia Summary: In this book, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes from his sister's Orthodox Jewish wedding into an erotic adventure with the enigmatic Tamara. His passing encounters are unforgettable; his relationships, problematic. At once a world citizen and a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by history's ghosts and unanswerable questions. He is a cartographer of identity on a compelling journey to an uncertain destination. As he draws and redraws his boundaries, he confronts us with the limitations of our own.
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In this book, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes from his sister's Orthodox Jewish wedding into an erotic adventure with the enigmatic Tamara. His passing encounters are unforgettable; his relationships, problematic. At once a world citizen and a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by history's ghosts and unanswerable questions. He is a cartographer of identity on a compelling journey to an uncertain destination. As he draws and redraws his boundaries, he confronts us with the limitations of our own.
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