{"title":"Andrés Neuman","description":"Andrés Neuman (1977) was selected as one of Granta's \"Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists\" and was included on the Bogotá-39 list. He is the author of numerous novels, short stories, poems, aphorisms, and travel books, including Traveler of the Century, Talking to Ourselves, The Things We Don't Do, and Fracture. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.","products":[{"product_id":"a-father-is-born-paperback","title":"A Father Is Born - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe moving story of a man becoming a father, written by the winner of the 2009 Alfaguara Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am delighted that we are together, my son, becoming what we will both be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man awaits his son's birth. Captivated, he follows the mother's pregnancy, imagining the child that will transform his house, his language, his relationship, and his family history. For a year, he annotates the memorable first steps leading the three of them into these new existential situations: being a father, a mother, a son; three different characters in a universal story, told in newly born words. A situation further complicated when the child begins speaking and articulating his world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Father Is Born\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical tale that resonates both on intimate and collective levels. Its understanding of fatherhood faces masculinity with the miracle of life and its incessant rereading of the present. In a time that redefines traditionally attributed roles, \u003ci\u003eA Father Is Born\u003c\/i\u003e accepts Anne Waldman's invitation: \"Tell the man to give up tumult for the while \/ To wonder at the sight of baby's beauty.\" But it is also, and above all, a love statement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102865789151,"sku":"9781960385413","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4TBsupiLoE9781960385413.webp?v=1781087502"},{"product_id":"once-upon-argentina-paperback","title":"Once Upon Argentina - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne day, a young man receives an unexpected letter from his grandmother, kicking off a literary adventure that brings home to him everything he has not seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon Argentina \u003c\/i\u003erelates the lives of the narrator's relatives-- a group of people from all over the world gathered in a land where immigrant traditions merge and thrive. The lives of these relatives intersect, like a set of Matryoshka dolls or a hall of mirrors, as the personal and social stories of twentieth century Argentina converge. Beyond these tales of hardship and triumph, Andrés Neuman's novel experiments with the nature of the autobiography, encom- passing prenatal memories, expanding the autofiction genre with a new voice and twist. Merging present and past, collective experiences and his own, the narrator explores a genealogy populated by unforgettable characters, offering us the story of the construction of a country, his Argentine childhood, and his early literary discoveries. With extraordinary delicacy and intensity, combining elegy, tragedy, and humor, Andrés Neuman reveals a world as real as it is fantastic, as strange as it is our own. \u003ci\u003eOnce Upon Argentina \u003c\/i\u003eis a coming-of-age tale, a political novel, and a love letter to the absent ones.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104399298783,"sku":"9781960385116","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wbFn99SHB39781960385116.webp?v=1781108224"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/andres-neuman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}