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(0)Eduardo Halfon
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Volver a Polonia. Volver a Łódz'. Volver a donde todo empezó. Buscando una procedencia y una identidad perdidas en las calles de una ciudad que el odio convirtió en gueto, en muerte, en ceniza.
Como un peregrinaje, un nieto empujado por la revelación de su abuelo, salvado por un boxeador polaco en Auschwitz, visita las calles de sus ancestros de la mano de un personaje enigmático e hipnótico, madame Maroszek, que le llevará por las luces...
2) Canción
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Libros del Asteroide volume 247
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Español
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"Una fría mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil de Guatemala, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón sin salida de la capital. Nadie ignora que Guatemala es un país surrealista, había afirmado años antes. Un narrador llamado Eduardo Halfon tendrá que viajar a Japón, y revisitar su infancia en la Guatemala de los bélicos años setenta, y acudir a un misterioso encuentro en un bar oscuro y lumpen, para finalmente...
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English
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"Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish 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...
4) Canción
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158 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories and, soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather's captors, including a butcher...
5) Monastery
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158 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"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;...