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Solitary travellers and a couple encounter Nina, an eloquent storyteller, on their travels through Spain, France and Italy. She entrances them all with her tales, which prompts her fellow travelling companions to share their own stories. A handsome young man from Staten Island, who believes that life forms exist in other galaxies, vows to never work in an office again and travels by container ship to a commune in Italy. A lonely postal worker from Lodz takes home and reads the most interesting love letters, often becoming convinced a relationship needs his intervention, before delivering them in the next day. A woman named Pauline calls herself Kim because her surname is Nowak. Depressed about turning forty, she mysteriously disappears from her own birthday party. Told by people in a journey, these are stories - rich with unexpected wisdoms - of lives in transit. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This month I was supposed to be taking one of the great train journeys of the world, the Ghan, from Adelaide to Darwin, but this week Lockdown was extended again. So our trip was suspended, and now we're booked to go next year instead. C'est la vie. Other people have had much greater disappointments and heartbreak. And I don't mind too much because, truth be told, the Ghan is a poor substitute for the kind of travel I like to do in the UK and Europe.
Which is the kind of travel enjoyed by the narrator of Antoni Jach's new novel, Travelling Companions. Just like me, he likes art galleries and museums, historic sites and remarkable buildings; and he likes to loiter in cafés and restaurants and soak up the ambience while enjoying the cuisines of Spain, France and Italy. He doesn't get liverish if his travel plans go slightly awry; he just goes with the flow. He also likes to make the acquaintance of other people with whom to share his experiences, and in all good faith he promises to stay in touch (but of course he never will.)
As a solo traveller, however, he seeks out company — especially in the evenings — and that's not something I do. By dinner time, introverts like me are exhausted by human company, and besides, I've got a travel blog to write, books to read and — as readers of this blog know — the reviews don't stop when I'm travelling, not unless patchy internet lets me down. But our narrator is delighted to strike up a friendship with an American couple called Gary and Nancy, and since they're doing the same kind of tourist trail he meets them again and again, mostly by prior arrangement.
Gary, alas, is a loquacious bore while Nancy is a sulky one. In slabs of text representing his monologues, he explains the relationship difficulties they're having to the narrator:
Just as well!
To read the rest of my review, please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/08/18/travelling-companions-by-antoni-jach/ ( )