Monastery

Best Translated Book Award LonglistReader's Digest Great New BookWorld Literature Today Holiday Gift Guide Recommendation“Offer[s] surprise and revelation at every turn." —Reader's Digest“Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller." —DANIEL ALARCÓN, author of At Night We Walk in CirclesIn Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and 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 and a writer who mistrusts the power of language, he is pursued by...