Like the writing of Ralph Ellison, Joan Didion and Clarice Lispector, the nonfiction of Andrés Neuman is as satisfying and electric as his fiction, if not more so. Roberto Bolaño said “The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.” Neuman is a literary prodigy who has more than fulfilled his early promise. In How To Travel Without Seeing (August 30th 2016), the first english language translation of his nonfiction, Neuman presents a kaleidoscopic view of the 19 Latin American countries he toured as the winner of the prestigious Premio Alfaguara prize. A kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic, this travelogue is a knowing guide to our ever-changing modern world.
A seasoned traveler, Neuman will be covering a lot of ground in the U.S. this fall:
AUTHOR EVENTS:
August 19: Edinburgh International Book Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
August 19: Edinburgh International Book Festival Solo Event (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
October 30: Green Apple Books on the Park (San Francisco, CA)
October 31: San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
October 31: University of Portland (Portland, OR)
November 1: Portland State University (Portland, OR)
November 1: Reed College (Portland, OR)
November 1: Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
November 2: Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX)
November 3: UT Dallas (Dallas, TX)
November 5-6: Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX)
November 7: Fordham University (Bronx, NY)
November 7: McNally Jackson Bookstore event with Carlos Fonseca (New York, NY)
November 9: With Carlos Fonseca at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
November 10: Bird in Hand, with Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
By Andrés Neuman
Translated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Lawrence
“The most breathtaking voice in travel writing today may be that of a writer who feels ambivalent about travel itself…. ‘Perhaps the greatest travel book, the most unpredictable of all,’ Andrés Neuman suggests in the closing paragraphs of How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America, ‘would be written by someone who doesn’t go anywhere and simply imagines possible movements. Facing a window that seems like a platform, the author would lift his head and feel the rush of the horizon.’ It’s a line that operates as both valedictory and epigraph…. As How to Travel Without Seeing progresses, it increasingly functions... as a set of vignettes, reflections, shards of memory or observation that add up in the only way such fragments can, as an approximation of consciousness…. This is what it means to travel now.”
—David Ullin, Barnes & Noble Review
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060556
Publication date: Aug 30, 2016