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The Things We Don´t Do
Andrés Neuman
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Description for The Things We Don´t Do
Paperback. The long-awaited first English collection of Neuman's short stories Translator(s): Caistor, Nick; Garcia, Lorenza. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Inspired by Borges and Cortázar, and echoing Vila Matas and Zarraluki, Neuman regards both life and literature's big subjects - identity, relationships, guilt and innocence, the survival of extreme circumstances, creativity and language - with a quizzical, philosophical eye. Shining from the page with both irony and mortal seriousness, these often tragicomic 'stories of ideas' vacillate between the touching and the absurd, in the best tradition of Spanish storytelling. This is the first ever English collection of Andrés Neuman's short fiction, containing thirty-five short stories and four sets of 'Twelve Rules for a Storyteller'. Andrés Neuman was born ... Read more
Inspired by Borges and Cortázar, and echoing Vila Matas and Zarraluki, Neuman regards both life and literature's big subjects - identity, relationships, guilt and innocence, the survival of extreme circumstances, creativity and language - with a quizzical, philosophical eye. Shining from the page with both irony and mortal seriousness, these often tragicomic 'stories of ideas' vacillate between the touching and the absurd, in the best tradition of Spanish storytelling. This is the first ever English collection of Andrés Neuman's short fiction, containing thirty-five short stories and four sets of 'Twelve Rules for a Storyteller'. Andrés Neuman was born ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782270737
SKU
V9781782270737
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About Andrés Neuman
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. Pushkin Press also publishes his novels Talking to Ourselves and Traveller of the Century, which won the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, and was shortlisted ... Read more
Reviews for The Things We Don´t Do
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 Neuman has a discerning eye for the foibles of human existence and yet an unwavering compassion for, and understanding of, them Elif Shafak [The collection shows] Neuman's restless spirit of invention, and... his commitment - all ... Read more