
Traveller of the Century
Andrés Neuman
Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate—on identity and what it is that defines us—from which he cannot break free. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town, including a young freethinker named Sophie. Though she is engaged to be married, Sophie and Hans begin a relationship that defies contemporary mores about female sexuality and what can and cannot be said about it.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781906548667
- Genre
- FictionRomantasy
- Topics
- Identity and philosophyForbidden loveTravel and displacement
Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardShortlistedMajor(2014)
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