صومعه

Best Translated Book Award Longlist Reader’s Digest Great New Book World Literature Today Holiday Gift Guide Recommendation “Offer[s] surprise & revelation at every turn.” — Reader’s Digest “Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.” —DANIEL ALARCÓN, author of At Night We Walk in Circles.°°° In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon’s critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, & border towns to a private jazz concert in New York’s Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, & 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 & a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by history’s ghosts & unanswerable questions. He is a cartographer of identity on a compelling journey to an uncertain destination. As he draws & redraws his boundaries, he confronts us with the limitations of our own.°°° Eduardo Halfon was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá & is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship & the prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel. The Polish Boxer, his first book to appear in English, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection & finalist for the International Latino Book Award. Halfon is currently the Harman Writer in Residence at Baruch College in New York & travels frequently between his homes in Nebraska & Guatemala.Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Emory University & has translated numerous works of fiction by Argentine, Mexican, Catalan, & Spanish writers. She lives in Decatur, Georgia. The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and Jerusalem In Monastery , Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer travels from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in 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. Best Translated Book Award Longlist Reader's Digest Great New Book World Literature Today Holiday Gift Guide Recommendation “Offer[s] surprise and revelation at every turn." — Reader's Digest “Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller." — DANIEL ALARCÓN , author of At Night We Walk in Circles In Monastery , 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...