HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT SEEING DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW LATIN AMERICA

 Andrés Neuman

Translated from Spanish by Jeffrey Lawrence

The Latin American writer Andrés Neuman starts this non-fiction account by lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the 19 countries of Latin America he visited after winning the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2009. Then, he begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of “not seeing.” Neuman wrote this book while on the move, generating a kinetic work that is at once playful and poetic. He even turns so-called non-places—airports, hotels, taxis—into powerful symbols full of meaning.

Simon & Schuster, 274 pages, Rs 899