At the heart of the novel lies the love story between Sophie and Hans. Through a series of memorable encounters with starkly different characters, Neuman takes the listener on a hypothetical journey back into post-Napoleonic Europe, subtly evoking its parallels with our modern era. 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. He intends to leave the following day, but the city begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting geography. A traveller stops off for the night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. Shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeĪ 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.
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