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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
576 pages
ISBN: 0374119392
EAN: 9780374119393
Kindle: B007NKN0S4
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Fiction Family Life
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 Andrés Neuman, a
writer described by Roberto Bolaño as being “touched by grace.”
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