A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One 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

Inspired by Borges and Cortazar, and echoing Vila Matas and Zarraluki, Neuman regards both life and literature's big subjects — identity, relationships, guilt and innocence, the survival of extreme circumstances, creativity — with a quizzical, philosophical eye. From US customs houses to disillusioned poets, from Borges to a man with a tricky identity-problem — shining from the page with both irony and mortal seriousness, these often tragicomic 'stories of ideas' vacillate between the touching and the absurd, in the best tradition of Spanish storytelling. This is the first ever English collection of Andres Neuman's short fiction, containing thirty-five short stories and four sets of 'Twelve Rules for a Storyteller

A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman's Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most exciting South-American writers of our time. A traveller stops off for the night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to leave the following day, but the city begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting geography. When Hans befriends an old organ grinder, and falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a local merchant, he finds it impossible to leave. Through a series of memorable encounters with starkly different characters, Neuman takes the reader on a hypothetical journey back into post-Napoleonic Europe, subtly evoking its parallels with our modern era. At the heart of the novel lies the love story between Sophie and Hans. They are both translators, and between dictionaries and bed, bed and dictionaries, they gradually build up their own fragile common language. Through their relationship, Neuman explores the idea that all love is an act of translation, and that all translation is an act of love. "A beautiful, accomplished novel: as ambitious as it is generous, as moving as it is smart" Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Guardian

Автор романа «Барилоче» уже известен читателям журнала — в декабре 2015 года, в юбилейном номере, мы публиковали фрагменты «Варваризмов» Андреса Неумана, испано-аргентинского писателя, поэта, журналиста, увлеченного созданием своеобразных «словарей» — глубоко личных, дерзких, отрицающих расхожие представления. Таков же и роман «Барилоче», следующий кредо из словаря Неумана: Красота в рассказе должна быть обоснованной, но само обоснование должно быть красивым. Прилагательные нужно бросать в рассказ, как семена в землю. История пустоты и одиночества в большом городе, поэтичный рассказ о стареющем мужчине, главным событием жизни которого осталась первая любовь в городке его юности. Перевод с испанского Ольги Кулагиной

Роман представляет собой грандиозный литературный эксперимент — попытку увидеть XIX век из века XXI-го, исследовать истоки современных конфликтов. Это своеобразный диалог между классическим романом и авангардистской формой, который связывает историю и проблемы современности: эмиграцию, мультикультурализм, национализм, женскую эмансипацию, и все это встроено в яркую сюжетную линию с интригами, загадками, юмором в сочетании с остроиндивидуальным стилем. Роман удостоен премии Alfaguara, одной из самых престижных литературных премий XXI века и ряда других. В оформлении обложки использован фрагмент картины Фердинанда Бруннера «Странник» (1908)