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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.
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The Traveller of the Century, Andrés Neuman
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- Released
- 2012
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Andrés Neuman
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 640
- ISBN10
- 1906548668
- ISBN13
- 9781906548667
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Germany, Murders, Spanish Literature, Magical Realism, Love Stories, Latin American Literature, Argentinian Literature
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- El viajero del siglo
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- 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.