Available February 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Traveller of the Century is an original and ambitious experiment–a work that invites us to look at the nineteenth century with twenty-first-century eyes. A novel that rediscovers the inspiration of classic narrative from a contemporary point of view. A dialogue between the Europe of the Restoration and the political plans of the European Union. A narrative bridge spanning the past and the global issues of our present–immigration, interculturalism, translation, nationalism and the emancipation of women. Love as a metaphor of translation, translation as a metaphor of love. An exceptional, fun, mature novel from a writer wise beyond his years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANDRÉS NEUMAN was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and published his first novel, Bariloche, at twenty-two. The Traveller of the Century, translated into ten languages, won the Alfaguara Prize, and the prestigious National Critics Prize in Spain. This novel was selected as one of the five best Spanish-language novels of 2009 by El Pais and El Mundo, and Neuman featured in Granta’s recent publication Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists.
Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
Cover designed by Henry Rivers
ISBN 978 1906548 66 7
650pp
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Traveller of the Century is an original and ambitious experiment–a work that invites us to look at the nineteenth century with twenty-first-century eyes. A novel that rediscovers the inspiration of classic narrative from a contemporary point of view. A dialogue between the Europe of the Restoration and the political plans of the European Union. A narrative bridge spanning the past and the global issues of our present–immigration, interculturalism, translation, nationalism and the emancipation of women. Love as a metaphor of translation, translation as a metaphor of love. An exceptional, fun, mature novel from a writer wise beyond his years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANDRÉS NEUMAN was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and published his first novel, Bariloche, at twenty-two. The Traveller of the Century, translated into ten languages, won the Alfaguara Prize, and the prestigious National Critics Prize in Spain. This novel was selected as one of the five best Spanish-language novels of 2009 by El Pais and El Mundo, and Neuman featured in Granta’s recent publication Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists.
Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
Cover designed by Henry Rivers
ISBN 978 1906548 66 7
650pp
