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Traveler of the century / Andrés Neuman ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia.

by Neuman, Andrés, 1977-

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Discussion -- Fiction.

9780374119393 (alk. paper)

0374119392 (alk. paper)

564 p. ; 22 cm..

1st American ed.

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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