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Best Translated Book Award Longlist Reader’s Digest Great New Book World Literature Today Holiday Gift Guide Recommendation “Offer[s] surprise & revelation at every turn.” — Reader’s Digest “Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.” —DANIEL ALARCÓN, author of At Night We Walk in Circles.°°° In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon’s critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, & border towns to a private jazz concert in New York’s Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, & 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 & a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by history’s ghosts & unanswerable questions. He is a cartographer of identity on a compelling journey to an uncertain destination. As he draws & redraws his boundaries, he confronts us with the limitations of our own.°°° Eduardo Halfon was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá & is the recipient o

Who reads Monastery?

Author

Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (translation)

Publisher

Bellevue Literary Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781934137833

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.98 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14