Signor Hoffman2016
by Eduardo Halfon
A writer travels to Italy to honor the memory of his Polish grandfather, prisoner at Auschwitz; travels the coast of Guatemala, from a black sand beach in the Pacific to a white sandy beach in the Atlantic; he arrives in Harlem, after nostalgia for a jazz hall; and in Poland seeks the family legacy inherited by his grandfather. Because all our travels, as the narrator says, are really just one trip. Each of the stories that make up this book moves between two poles: from the cosmopolitan to the rural, from the mundane journey to the inner journey, from the identity we adopt to save ourselves to the disguise that we eventually personify: from Mr. Halfon to Signor Hoffman--
"Un escritor viaja a Italia para honrar la memoria de su abuelo polaco, prisionero en Auschwitz; recorre las costas de...