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Title: The Polish Boxer
Author: Eduardo Halfon
Narrator: Armando Durán
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-26-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfathers past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he cant find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference. Drawn to what lies beyond the range of reason, they all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through humor, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Across his encounters with each of them, the narrator - a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon - pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself.
Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by a legacy of violence and exile, The Polish Boxer marks the debut of a major new Latin American voice in English.
Eduardo Halfon, a native of Guatemala, has been cited as among the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, and he is the recipient of Spains prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel.
Critic Reviews:
A book that willfully and delightfully blurs the boundaries among novel, memoir, and meditationA key pleasure ofThe Polish Boxeris that of revelationThe power ofThe Polish Boxeris that it is always rooted in the personal. It is deeply accessible, deeply moving. (Los Angeles Times)
Elegant. (Marie Claire)
These are the stories of lifeThe fictional makes the real bearable and intelligible. (Publishers Weekly, boxed review)