Андрес Неуман — новинки

Cuando decimos que un músico toca de oído nos referimos a que su entendimiento de la música se debe más a un asunto de lírica y comprensión instintiva que el estudio y el conocimiento académico. Por ello, Vivir de oído hace una forma semejante de hundirse en la vida y sus incidencias, la memoria y sus sorpresas, la cotidianidad y sus rupturas. Los ruidos que escuchamos con distracción y recibimos como señales equivocadas de las cosas que nos rodean; las ilusiones ópticas a partir de los que inventamos mundos más divertidos y alucinantes que este; el despertar en compañía que nos hace ser otros, distintos a todos los días; las reflexiones existenciales de un hombre que tiende su cama; las presencias animales con las que cargan un diario el ser humano.

In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear disaster strikes. In the aftermath, he finds himself on a journey to Fukushima, a tourist of the current day tragedy that mimics his own experiences of World War II.
For Mr Watanabe is one of the few double hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The earthquake

"Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature, the kind written by real poets, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers."—Roberto Bolaño

Playful, philosophizing, and gloriously unpredictable, Andrés Neuman's short stories consider love, lechery, history, mortality, family secrets, therapy, Borges, mysterious underwear, translators, and storytelling itself.

Here a relationship turns on a line drawn in the sand; an analyst treats a patient who believes he's the real analyst; a discovery in a secondhand shop takes on a cruel significance; a man decides to go to work naked one day. In these small scenes and brief moments Neuman confounds our expectations with dazzling sleight of hand.

With a variety of forms and styles, Neuman opens up the possibilities for fiction, calling to mind other greats of Latin American letters, such as Cortázar, Bolaño, and Bioy Casares. Intellectually stimulating and told with a voice that is wry, questioning, sometimes mordantly funny, yet always generously humane, The Things We Don't Do confirms Neuman's place as one of the most dynamic authors writing today.

Andrés Neuman was born in Buenos Aires, but grew up and lives in Spain. He was included in Granta's "Young Spanish-Language Novelists" issue and is the author of almost twenty works, two of which—Traveler of the Century and Talking to Ourselves—have been translated into English. Traveler of the Century won the Alfaguara Prize, the National Critics Prize, was longlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

'This is writing of a quality rarely encountered... when you read Neuman's beautiful novel, you realise a very high bar has been set' Guardian
Sooner or later, we all face loss.
Ten-year old Lito is sure that he can change the weather, if only he concentrates very hard. His seriously ill father Mario is anxious to create a life-long memory for the unsuspecting Lito, and takes him on a road-trip in a truck called Pedro. Together, they embark on a journey through strange landscapes which blur the borders of the Spanish-speaking world. In the meantime, Lito's mother Elena tries to find solace in books and undertakes a precarious adventure of her own that will challenge her moral limits.
Alternately narrated by the mother, father and son, Talking to Ourselves is a story about how we are transformed by loss, and how words, and sex, can serve as powerful modes of resistance. Each of these solitary, richly textured and strikingly unique voices forms a poignant communication while none of them dares to tell the others the whole truth.
A profound tribute to all those who have ever had to care for a loved one, told with Neuman's characteristic warmth, bittersweet humour and wide-ranging intellect.
Andrés Neuman was born in Buenos Aires in 1977, and grew up and lives in Spain. The son of Argentinian émigré musicians, he has published numerous novels, short stories, essays and poetry collections. His first novel to be translated into English, Traveller of the Century, was awarded the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Lito dreams of trucks; Mario is sick and owes life some debts that must be paid. Before time runs out, they embark on a decisive journey sharing much more than time and space. Haunted by the imminent loss, Elena immerses herself in a cathartic adventure that will test each and every moral code. Tender and crude, Hablar solos is an unsettling novel that explores the relationship between Thanatos and Eros and poses a question of profound consequences: How does an illness affect our way of reading and living sex?

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…

Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir.
Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna. El viajero del siglo nos propone un ambicioso experimento literario: leer el siglo xix con la mirada del xxi. Un puente entre la historia y los debates de nuestro presente global:la extranjería, el multiculturalismo y los nacionalismos, la emancipación de la mujer.