traveler of the century a novel andrés neuman

The unflinching gazes of Neuman's characters drive this slim novel. Neuman, the author of the award-winning Traveler of the Century, displays his characteristic warmth, humanism, 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 cared for a loved one. Talking to Ourselves presents a tender yet unsentimental portrait of the workings of love and family a reflection on death, sex, grief, and the consolation of words. 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. While neither of them dares to tell the complete truth to the other two, their solitary voices nonetheless form a poignant conversation. The narratives of father, mother, and son each embody one of the different ways that we talk to ourselves: through thought, speech, and writing. In the meantime, Lito's mother Elena looks for support in books, undertaking an adventure of her own that will challenge her moral limits. Together, father and son embark on travels that take them through strange geographies, ones that seem to unite the borders of Spanish-speaking world.

But Lito doesn't know that this might be their last trip: Mario is seriously ill. 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. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard.

Traveler of the century a novel andrés neuman