The Polish Boxer, Eduardo Halfon Translated by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead, and Anne McLean
The Polish Boxer, Eduardo Halfon Translated by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead, and Anne McLean
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The Polish Boxer

Author: Eduardo Halfon; Translated by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead, and Anne McLean

Narrator: Armando Durn

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2012


Synopsis

The Polish Boxercovers 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 narratora Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfonpursues his most enigmatic subject: himself. Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by a legacy of violence and exile,The Polish Boxermarks the debut of a major new Latin American voice in English.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on March 31, 2023

Halfon has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his work on 'The Polish Boxer', an Auschwitz inmate who shared an experience with Halfon's grandfather in the concentration camp. As well as being part memoir, part fiction, part short stories, part novel, Halfon's writing, translation with......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on November 30, 2012

I loved this book. Without saying much about the full storylines here (you really have to experience this book yourself), I read this book twice -- the first time through I didn't like the disjointed feel of the book, but then when I got to the ending, something the author said made me think that pe......more

Goodreads review by Guillermo on January 19, 2014

En un principio me desconcertó. No fue sino hasta el tercer cuento que logré comprender esa sutileza con la que Halfon hilvana los relatos. Ese murmullo de río subterráneo que se agolpa en cada una de sus páginas. Demomios. ¡Qué bien puede escribir este cabrón! Releí como desesperado nuevamente los pr......more

Goodreads review by Gokce on February 01, 2025

Latin Amerikalıları seviyorum… Bu bir öykü kitabı değilmiş ki ben içindekiler bölümünü de görünce öyle olduğuna emin olarak okumaya başladım.Bu birbirine bağlı öykülerden oluşan kısa bir roman. Bir nevi anılar zinciri… ilginç bir okumaydı…......more

Goodreads review by Lahierbaroja on January 31, 2020

69752. Que era su número de teléfono. Que lo tenía tatuado allí, en su antebrazo izquierdo, para no olvidarlo. Eso decía mi abuelo. Y eso creí mientras crecía. Página 87 Yo sólo creo en una cosa: en los buenos libros. En la buena literatura que te hace exclamar y decirte, a ti mismo y a cuantos te ro......more