{"product_id":"9781934137833","title":"Monastery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBest Translated Book Award Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  Great New Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Holiday Gift Guide Recommendation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Offer[s] surprise and revelation at every turn.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.” —\u003cb\u003eDANIEL ALARCÓN\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Night We Walk in Circles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMonastery\u003c\/i\u003e, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon’s critically-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Polish Boxer\u003c\/i\u003e returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York’s Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes from his sister’s Orthodox Jewish wedding into an erotic adventure with the enigmatic Tamara. His passing encounters are unforgettable; his relationships, problematic. At once a world citizen and a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by history’s ghosts and unanswerable questions. He is a cartographer of identity on a compelling journey to an uncertain destination. As he draws and redraws his boundaries, he confronts us with the limitations of our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Halfon\u003c\/b\u003e was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel. \u003ci\u003eThe Polish Boxer\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book to appear in English, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice selection and finalist for the International Latino Book Award. Halfon is currently the Harman Writer in Residence at Baruch College in New York and travels frequently between his homes in Nebraska and Guatemala.","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184191422704,"sku":"9781934137833","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137833_p0.jpg?v=1763641016","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137833","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}