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The Polish Boxer
Eduardo Halfon, Thomas Bunstead (Traduttore), Lisa Dillman (Traduttore)
The English-language debut of a major Latin American writer The Polish Boxer is a semi-autobiographical tale about roots and origins: the subtly subversive longing for lost identity, the emotionally treacherous territory of cultural exile, and the lingering legacy of history’s atrocities. As the narrator—a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon—travels from small Mayan villages to a Scottish bar in Antigua, and from a Mark Twain conference in North Carolina through the memories of his Polish grandfather’s nightmare at Auschwitz and to a Gypsy neighborhood in Serbia, he encounters people whose stories are as rich and diverse as the languages they speak. PRAISE “Eduardo Halfon’s prose is as delicate, precise, and ineffable as precocious art—a lighthouse that illuminates everything.” —Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name “These are the stories of life . . . the question of survival (of both people and cultures) and the way the fictional makes the real bearable and intelligible.” —Publishers Weekly, (boxed review)
Formato
Cartaceo
Generi
General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
Offerto da
Bellevue Literary Press (Editore)
(User: blpbooks)
Pacchetto
September 2012
Inizia il: 2012-09-05
Termina il: 2012-10-01
In vendita
2012-10-02
Paese
Jungtinės Valstijos
Collegamenti
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