by Andrés Neuman · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781908968388
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«The Traveller of the Century» is Andrés Neuman's historical novel, published by Pushkin Press in 2013 in paperback (578 pages, in English).
In Germany after the Napoleonic Wars, Hans, a traveller passing through to Dessau, decides to spend a night in Wandernburg. The strange and shifting geography of the city, his friendship with an old barrel organ player and his love for Sophie, a merchant's daughter, end up keeping him there. The novel explores love as translation and translation as love, with echoes of today's Europe.
The original, «El viajero del siglo» (2009), won the Alfaguara Novel Prize; the English translation is by Nick Caistor and Lorenza García and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
For readers of historical and literary fiction who enjoy stories of love, politics and translation.
Andrés Neuman is an Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.
