![]() They are both translators, and between dictionaries and bed, bed and dictionaries,they gradually build up their own fragile common language. ![]() At the heart of the novel lies the love story between Sophie and Hans. Through a series of memorable encounters with starkly different characters, Neuman takes the reader on a hypothetical journey back into post-Napoleonic Europe, subtly evoking its parallels with our modern era. ![]() When Hans befriends an old organ grinder, and falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a local merchant, he finds it impossible to leave. He intends to leave the following day, but the city begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting geography. ![]() A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman's Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most exciting South-American writers of our time.A traveller stops off for the night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. ![]()
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