- Published: 11/06/2020
- ISBN: 9781783785131
- Granta Books
- 368 pages
Fracture
Andrés Neuman
Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
In 2011, Mr. Watanabe, a Japanese electronics executive, is in Tokyo when the earthquake that precedes the Fukushima nuclear disaster strikes. In the aftermath, he fins himself on a journey to Fukushima, a tourist of the current day tragedy that mimics his own experiences of World War II.
For Mr Watanabe is one of the few double hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The earthquake shifts his and others memories of those events. Meanwhile, four women based in Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid tell their own stories of knowing and loving Mr Watanabe, a victim of one of the largest collective traumas of the last century.
A sweeping novel written with intimacy and compassion, Fracture encompasses some of the most urgent political, social and environmental questions of contemporary life, about collective trauma, memory and love. Already a sensation in Spain, it is major work of imagination from the prize-winning and highly acclaimed Argentinian author.
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This book's beautiful, gold-fissured jacket, designed by Jamie Keenan, pays tribute to [kintsugi]... Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia have produced a supremely elegant translation... There are fascinating disquisitions here into cultural difference, language, illness, fear and grief
TLS
Traversing languages and cultures, decades and generations, Fracture unites its many fragments to form a powerful and redemptive vision of a single, and unbroken, human life. A searching, humane, and vital novel
Eleanor Catton
One of the things I love about Andrés Neuman's work is how he restores writing as the most powerful source of knowledge. This dazzling and devastating novel is a terrific demonstration of that
Alejandro Zambra
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‘And questions, more than heroes, are the material from which good stories are made.’