How to Travel without Seeing
Dispatches from the New Latin America
A kaleidoscopic, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world's most outstanding writers.Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of not seeing. But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non…
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Weitere Autoren: Lawrence, Jeffrey
- ISBN: 978-1-63206-055-6
- EAN: 9781632060556
- Produktnummer: 19234510
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.5 cm 305 g
- Gewicht: 305
Über den Autor
Andrés Neuman was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Spain. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá39 list. Traveler of the Century (FSG, 2012) was the winner of the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, Spain's two most prestigious literary awards, as well as of a special commendation from the jury of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Neuman has taught Latin American literature at the University of Granada.Jeffrey Lawrence received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and is currently a professor of English at Rutgers University.
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