Austral : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION FONS (CEN)
Edition
First American edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Physical Description
207 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Julio Gamboa receives a letter informing him that his friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, has passed away and he has been named executor of her literary legacy. Aliza lived withdrawn in a remote artists' colony in Humahuaca, where Julio will go to take care of her friend's papers. These manuscripts open up--like Chinese boxes, like Russian dolls--a whole universe of stories. That of Elisabeth Nietzsche, the philosopher's sister, who founded Nueva Germania in Paraguay, an anti-Semitic colony; that of the last speaker of an indigenous language; that of a survivor of the Guatemalan genocide who seeks, through the construction of an esoteric theater of memory, to recover the memories lost after the traumas of war... And all these stories lead to a very intimate one: that of Julio himself, a disillusioned man, who manages to settle accounts with his past by reading his friend's posthumous papers."--