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From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.

Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover the mysteries within her final novel. Aliza had raced to finish her work as her mind deteriorated. In her manuscript is a series of interconnected accounts of loss, tales that set Julio hurtling on a journey to uncover their true meaning. Austral tracks Julio's trip from Aliza's home in an Argentine artists' colony to a forgotten city in Guatemala, to the Peruvian Amazon, and through Nueva Germania, the antisemitic commune in Paraguay founded by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche.

A story of mourning and returnto one's native country, to one's darkest memories, to oneselfCarlos Fonseca's Austral interrogates the obsessions an

Austral

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    A Hardback by Carlos Fonseca, Megan McDowell

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 23 May 2023
      ISBN-13 9780374606657
      978-0374606657
      ISBN-10 037460665X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.

      Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover the mysteries within her final novel. Aliza had raced to finish her work as her mind deteriorated. In her manuscript is a series of interconnected accounts of loss, tales that set Julio hurtling on a journey to uncover their true meaning. Austral tracks Julio's trip from Aliza's home in an Argentine artists' colony to a forgotten city in Guatemala, to the Peruvian Amazon, and through Nueva Germania, the antisemitic commune in Paraguay founded by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche.

      A story of mourning and returnto one's native country, to one's darkest memories, to oneselfCarlos Fonseca's Austral interrogates the obsessions an

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