FICTION

Monastery

by Eduardo Halfon
Bellevue Literary. 2014. 160p. tr. from Spanish by Lisa Dillman & Daniel Hahn. ISBN 9781934137826. pap. $14.95; ebk. ISBN 9781934137833. F
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Named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, Halfon debuted here with The Polish Boxer, whose protagonist—a secular Guatemalan Jew named Eduardo—returns in this well-modulated new work. Israel holds no special meaning for Eduardo when he travels there to attend the wedding of his sister, unrecognizable as an Orthodox woman in a wig, but it prompts reflections on identity as he continues his journeys. Eduardo may be the perpetual wanderer, but his meditations are focused and absorbing.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Dec 01, 2014
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