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Austral by Carlos Fonseca is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Austral about?
From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover the mysteries within her final novel. Aliza had raced to finish her work as her mind deteriorated. In her manuscript is a series of interconnected accouncs of loss, tales that set Julio hurtling on a journey to uncover their true meaning. Austral tracks Julio's trip from Aliza's home in an Argentine artists' colony to a forgotten city in Guatemala, to the Peruvian Amazon, and through Nueva Germania, the antisemitic commune in Paraguay founded by Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche. A story of mourning and return-to one's native country, to one's darkest memories, to oneself Carlos Fonseca's Austral interrogates the...
Who reads Austral?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Carlos Fonseca
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- EN
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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