"Elegant "Marie Claire"
"Funny and revelatory." "New York Times Book Review"
"Deeply accessible, deeply moving." "Los Angeles Times"
"The Polish Boxer" covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he...

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-Offer s] surprise and revelation at every turn.- --Reader's Digest
-Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller.- --DANIEL ALARCON, author of At Night We Walk in Circles
In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in...