An unusual talent is required to pull this off, and Neuman has it. (.) Traveller of the Century doesn't merely respect the reader's intelligence: it sets out to worship it. Oh yes: it is also, finally, a murder mystery. It is a novel about wild sex and literary translation, sometimes in the same sentence. ' Traveller of the Century is a novel of ideas, but it is also a conventional love story between conventionally unconventional people it is a novel about history, but never just a historical novel it is a novel about politics of the past that continuously and unashamedly comments on present politics.Debe admitirse como una auténtica pieza literaria, pese a algunos reparos en reiteraciones, personajes secundarios no bien definidos y un exceso de pedantería.' - Joaquín Marco, El Cultural Constituye un tour de force, un experimento difícil también para un lector, alejado de cualquier concesión. 'Neuman se sirve de ambigöedades, juega con el lector con misterios y construye un relato aparentemente germánico, lento y discursivo, pero nunca exento de interés.

1800 (the sort of thing I'm a fan of)ĭecent will probably try to return to it ) the least enticement to carry on it read like an amateurish modern attempt at writing what was supposed to (but didn't) read like a German novel of ca. Maybe came at this with far too high expectations, but put it aside after a hundred disappointing pages poorly paced, lazily quirky, and it just dragged and dragged with barely anything (even the salons) or characters (like the cave-dwelling organ grinder.

Winner of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela, 2009.

Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia.

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