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The Polish boxer / Eduardo Halfon ; translated by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead, and Anne McLean.
- Title
- The Polish boxer / Eduardo Halfon ; translated by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead, and Anne McLean.
- Author
- Halfon, Eduardo, 1971-
- Publication
- New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ7499.3.H35 B6913 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hahn, Daniel
- Description
- 188 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he can't find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference. Drawn to what lies beyond the range of reason, they all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through humor, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Across his encounters with each of them, the narrator--a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon--pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself."--Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Boxeador polaco. English
- Alternative Title
- Boxeador polaco.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Fiction
- Short stories
- Romans.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Distant -- Twaining -- Epistrophy -- White Smoke -- The Polish Boxer -- Postcards -- Ghosts -- Piroutte -- A Speech at Póvoa -- Sunsets.
- ISBN
- 9781934137536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1934137537 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012016416
- OCLC
- 783151783
- SCSB-12776238
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library