A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices
One trip. Two love stories. Three voices.Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father, Mario, anxious to create a memory that will last for his son's lifetime,[...]
"The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman." --Roberto Bolano
Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds hims[...]
Sooner or later, we all face loss. Ten-year old Lito is sure that he can change the weather, if only he concentrates very hard. His seriously ill father Mario is anxious to create a life-long memory for the unsuspecting Lito, and takes him on a road-trip in a truck called Pedro. Together, they embar[...]
'Here's the world for you, son, clean and cruel, fragrant and rotten, sincere and deceiving, give it to me new, come on, run' Playful, philosophising and gloriously unpredictable, Andres Neuman's short stories consider love, lechery, history, mortality, family secrets, therapy, Borges, fallen nuns, [...]