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Eduardo Halfon

The Polish Boxer

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The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he can't find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference. Drawn to what lies beyond the range of reason, they all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through humour, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Across his encounters with each of them, the narrator — a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon — pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself. Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by a legacy of violence and exile, The Polish Boxer marks the debut of a major new Latin American voice in English.
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192 бумажные страницы
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2012
Год выхода издания
2012
Издательство
Pushkin Press
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  • Cesar Valladaresцитирует5 лет назад
    Then I washed my hands, thinking about my grandfather, about Auschwitz, about the five green digits tattooed on his forearm, which for all of my childhood I thought were there, as he used to tell me himself, so that he could remember his telephone number. And without knowing why, I felt a bit guilty.
  • Cesar Valladaresцитирует5 лет назад
    mara her last name. I remember that it was Russian. Halfon is Lebanese, I said, but my mother’s last name, Tenenbaum, is Polish, from Łódź, and both girls shrieked.
  • Cesar Valladaresцитирует5 лет назад
    I’m not Jewish anymore, I said, smiling at her, I retired.
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