Halfon Eduardo: Bol

Name: Bol
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Author: Halfon Eduardo

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Author: Halfon Eduardo
Publisher: Geopoetika
Availability: Available
Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 81671

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Bol

Halfon Eduardo

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Eduardo Halfon: Bol

Of the twenty books that the famous Guatemalan writer has published so far, one of the most significant is the novel Bol, for which he received numerous awards and recognitions, including the French prize for the best foreign book (Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2018).

Bol is a book about building awareness of the family past, about breaking through its secrets, on a narrow path between apocryphal memories, forbidden topics and unreliable the truth. Halfon's narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the USA and Guatemala in search of his family roots, but also for his own identity as a wandering Jew. He tries to get to the heart of the legendary story of his uncle Salomon's drowning in the lake, but also shed light on the painful past of his grandfather, who survived the years of the Auschwitz concentration camp thanks to the advice of a Polish boxer.
While delving deeper into the family history of his Polish and Lebanese Jewish community, whose members found refuge in Guatemala, the narrator also seeks to discover his own connections not only to his Central American homeland, but also to the power of its ancestral myths in a violent the environment of the brutal Guatemalan reality of the 1970s, which forced his family to pack their bags again and continue their wanderings.

Branko Anđić

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