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How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America
How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America | Andrés Neuman, Jeffrey Lawrence
A kaleidoscopic, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andres Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of not seeing. But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non-places airports, hotels, taxis are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality, immigration and globalization, history and language, and turbulent current events. Above all, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin America, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolano, Vargas Llosa, Lorca, and Galeano, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose impact is now making ripples worldwide. Eye-opening and charmingly offbeat, "How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America" is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of the Americas."
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Saw Andrés Neuman at @Powells on Tuesday. I almost didn't go because I could feel a migraine coming on but I am so glad I did. He was beyond lovely and the event facilitator, Jeremy, asked some really great questions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall just listening to the two of them talk about books for hours. #authorevent

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About Santiago but giving me so many thoughts and feelings about my own maritime-yet-surrounded-by-mountain-ranges city of Seattle. Is this where the mythic Seattle Freeze comes from? The dynamic tension between accommodating and wary, accessible and remote?

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Lupita.Reads
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A love letter to Latin America! Neuman complies his notes and random thoughts while traveling through Latin America for a book tour. He manages to weave in politics, history and contemporary literature written by Latin American writers in his notes effortlessly, while also finding room to reminisce about different Latin American films. All in short quick paragraphs that don't necessarily follow a plot or distinct order. I really enjoyed this book!

read_diverse_books That's a great concept for a book. Love the cover as well.👠8y
whatthelog Wow that looks fab! Thanks for sharing, I'd never heard of it before. 8y
mhillis Adding this one! Thanks📚 8y
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NadinetheReader The cover!!👀 8y
Lupita.Reads @read_diverse_books it really is. After the first twenty pages I was like "what am I reading" but once I got the hang of it, i absolutely enjoyed it. Lots of Latin films I've seen he mentions and some as well. I love film so definitely took some notes! 8y
Lupita.Reads @whatthelog no problem! It's a translation that was recently published by Restless Books. 8y
Lupita.Reads @mhillis Yay! 🤘🽠8y
Lupita.Reads @NadinetheReader amazing right?! Restless Books comes up with some really beautiful covers! 8y
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Lupita.Reads
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Rainy day working from home and all I want to do is cuddle up with a warm blanket and read! 😫

Reviewsbylola This is so me this morning!! 8y
TheGirlwIthtHeBook Agreed! Stayed up most of the night writing a paper, and now running on three hours of sleep just want to nap and read the rest of the day 😥 8y
read_diverse_books I wish I had the luxury of working from home. Getting up and going to work has been such a struggle the last few months lol. I've been seriously considering going on funemployment. 😅😂😥😩 8y
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BilboBookends This sums it up perfectly 🙌🻠8y
Notafraidofwords I wish I could work from home! 8y
LeahBergen ðŸ‘ðŸ¼ðŸ‘🼠8y
Mariposa_Bookworm The story of my life! 8y
TheNextBook I felt like this today. I just wanted to crawl back in bed and tell everything and everyone else to go fly a kite 😔 Alas I went to work. 8y
Lupita.Reads @TheNextBook such a struggle! Why can't we all be professional readers?! 😫 8y
TheNextBook @Lupita.Reads It's my dream job. 8y
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I read an excerpt of this online thinking it was an article & bought it immediately. A literary travel memoir that's also translated from Spanish, released by an indie publisher? This hit all the sweet spots of the type of books that I'm finding exciting right now. Can't wait to dig in.

Connie Such an awesome cover 😲 8y
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Fascinating, smart, enjoyable.

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"...it seemed appealing to try writing a journal that would reflect two contradictory convictions. First, that we end up experiencing a particular world in every place we visit. Second, that through the media we spend more time in other places (or in several places simultaneously, or nowhere at all) than where we are physically. But if this is the case, then why does travel continue to transform and teach us so much?"

Rabbitandraven I made the mistake of passing this up during a browsing session at Queen Anne books this weekend. I thought about it for two days, and fortunately ran into again the next at Phinney Books. 8y
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"[I] revere the airport, that asceptic cathedral where passengers begin the liturgy of changing states before actually changing places," Neuman describes the day before traveling to Argentina. "Airports are the only temples we've been able to build to the present. True shrines to terrestrial transit."