Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa, both before and after the Second World War, Edgardo Cozarinsky's stories belong to the spirit of Borges and to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the uprooted exile, the plaything of History, who, set down in a strange but proud land, looks back nostalgically to the Europe of his ancestral memories.
Cozarinsky's characters are writers, lovers, scholars, artists and dreamers. An ambitious young Jew, about to marry and embark for a new life in Argentina is accosted by an unknown woman who departs with him to Buenos Aires; a pianist in a Buenos Aires nightclub finds himself drawn back to Germany in 1937; an Argentine-American Jew travels to Lisbon to unravel the threads of his grandparents' wartime affair...
They are all travellers of a kind, characters who inhabit a secret land, without frontiers.
- ISBN10 1843430517
- ISBN13 9781843430513
- Publish Date 22 January 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Harvill Secker
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English