"Neuman is a literary alchemist . [ Fracture is] a moving meditation on the reverberating waves that shape us and the inescapable impermanence of life." -- Kirkus Reviews "Filled with insights into cross-cultural intimacies, [ Fracture ] is charged with . distaste for what history does to tragedies: turning injuries of flesh and blood into crude symbols." -- The New Yorker " Fracture is by far the Argentinian writer Andrés Neuman''s most successful experiment . that which should be said must be said - and Neuman undoubtedly says it beautifully." --Ian Sansom, The Guardian " Fracture asks how we can live, as individuals and as communities, in the long shadow of catastrophe . More than once, Mr.

Neuman''s evocations of the aftermaths of 1945 and 2011 bring the vacant, haunted spaces of 2020 to mind. In our deserted cities, we too have had "to contemplate what life looks like when there should be no one left." --Boyd Tonkin, The Wall Street Journal " A prolific writer, Neuman . delights in language and linguistic ambiguity. In Fracture , he explores the fragmented nature of memory, emotional scars, a city''s wounds after a disaster and the cracks in a relationship caused by cultural difference . Perceptively translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, Fracture is a novel for our times and astonishingly relevant. " --Lucy Popescu, The Guardian "Neuman uses highly imaginative, highly poetic language to tell a cinematic story constructed like a puzzle while raising urgent social, political, philosophical, and ecological issues. This tour de force, akin to a six-voice musical offering .

is a profound, captivating novel, written with confounding intelligence and wit, a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of human consciousness." -- Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today "We find ourselves immersed in a story about a man written by a man but narrated by four women, an act of ventriloquism mirrored by reading the book in its easy-flowing translation (by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) from Spanish . in this enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture a profound, captivating novel, written with confounding intelligence and wit, a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of human consciousness." -- Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today "We find ourselves immersed in a story about a man written by a man but narrated by four women, an act of ventriloquism mirrored by reading the book in its easy-flowing translation (by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) from Spanish .

in this enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture a disaster and the cracks in a relationship caused by cultural difference . Perceptively translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, Fracture is a novel for our times and astonishingly relevant. " --Lucy Popescu, The Guardian "Neuman uses highly imaginative, highly poetic language to tell a cinematic story constructed like a puzzle while raising urgent social, political, philosophical, and ecological issues. This tour de force, akin to a six-voice musical offering .

is a profound, captivating novel, written with confounding intelligence and wit, a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of human consciousness." -- Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today "We find ourselves immersed in a story about a man written by a man but narrated by four women, an act of ventriloquism mirrored by reading the book in its easy-flowing translation (by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) from Spanish . in this enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture a profound, captivating novel, written with confounding intelligence and wit, a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of human consciousness." -- Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today "We find ourselves immersed in a story about a man written by a man but narrated by four women, an act of ventriloquism mirrored by reading the book in its easy-flowing translation (by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) from Spanish .

in this enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture uman asks us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look.

" -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture a profound, captivating novel, written with confounding intelligence and wit, a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of human consciousness." -- Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today "We find ourselves immersed in a story about a man written by a man but narrated by four women, an act of ventriloquism mirrored by reading the book in its easy-flowing translation (by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) from Spanish . in this enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture us to look beyond the present." --David Pilling, Financial Times "Stirring .

Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book''s recursive structure and language . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." -- Publishers Weekly "The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one''s outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman''s [ Fracture ] a winner." -- Library Journal (starred review) "[Neuman is] a wildly talented and curious writer whose books roam energetically around the world and across genres . Fracture is very much about how catastrophe and trauma ripple across the world--the book hopscotches from Tokyo to Madrid, Paris, Buenos Aires, and New York--and, in that sense, offers an eerie reflection of the global reach of our present pandemic. " -- Vanity Fair (31 Great Quarantine Reads) "Tracing the flow of time, tragedies both individual and global, and our memories of what occurred, Neuman leads us into the lives and loves of his characters, filling in the gaps between one character''s memories with another''s . Neuman knows that the ways in which we''re broken not only form an essential fabric of our being, but often remake us in entirely new ways. " -- Chicago Review of Books " Fracture spans more than six decades, five time zones, and four love affairs.

It''s one of the most ambitious books I''ve read recently; [Neumaneumaneumaneuman] tackles issues of gender, love, environmentalism, translation, and international relations in just under 350 pages. " -- Alina Cohen, Observer "A talented travel writer ( How to Travel without Seeing , 2016), invent.