Name: Talking to Ourselves
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Author: Andrés Neuman
ISBN: 9780374535131

Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrés Neuman

Translated by

Nick Caistor

Lorenza Garcia

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780374535131

Edition No.

Synopsis "Talking to Ourselves "

A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voicesOne trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime, takes him on a road trip in a truck called Pedro. But Lito doesn't know that this might be their last trip: Mario is gravely ill. Together, father and son embark on a journey takes them through strange geographies that seem to meld the different parts of the Spanish-speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother, Elena, restlessly seeks support in books, and soon undertakes an adventure of her own that will challenge her moral limits. Each narrative--of father, son, and mother--embodies one of the different ways that we talk to ourselves: through speech, through thought, and through writing. While neither of them dares to tell the complete truth to the other two, their individual voices nonetheless form a poignant conversation. Sooner or later, we all face loss. Andrés Neuman movingly narrates the ways the lives of those who survive loss are transformed; how that experience changes our ideas about time, memory, and our own bodies; and how the acts of reading, and of sex, can serve as powerful modes of resistance. Talking to Ourselves presents a tender yet unsentimental portrait of the workings of love and family; a reflection both on grief and on the consolation of words. Neuman, the author of the award-winning Traveler of the Century, displays his characteristic warmth, bittersweet humor, and wide-ranging intellect, giving us the rich, textured, and strikingly different voices and experiences of three singular characters while presenting, above all, a profound tribute to those who have ever had to care for a loved one.

Andrés Neuman

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Andrés Neuman es un escritor, poeta y traductor nacido el 28 de enero de 1977 en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hijo de músicos, se trasladó con su familia a Granada, España, durante su adolescencia, ciudad donde ha desarrollado gran parte de su vida y carrera literaria.

Estudió Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Granada y desde muy joven destacó en el ámbito literario. Con solo 22 años fue finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela con su obra Bariloche, lo que marcó el inicio de su reconocimiento internacional.

Su producción literaria es amplia y diversa, abarcando novela, cuento, poesía, ensayo y traducción. Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran El viajero del siglo, novela con la que ganó el Premio Alfaguara en 2009, Hablar solos y Fractura. En sus textos explora temas como la identidad, el lenguaje, el viaje, la memoria y las relaciones humanas, con un estilo cuidado y reflexivo.

Además de su labor como narrador, Neuman es un reconocido poeta y ha traducido obras de autores como William Shakespeare. También escribe columnas y participa activamente en el debate cultural contemporáneo.

Considerado una de las voces más importantes de la literatura en español actual, su obra ha sido traducida a numerosos idiomas y ha recibido múltiples premios internacionales.

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