The guardian of Amsterdam Street / Sergio Schmucler ; translated by Jessica Mendez Sayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmucler, Sergio, 1959-2019, author.

Contributor:

Sayer, Jessie Mendez, translator.

Standardized Title:

Guardián de la calle Ámsterdam. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Neighborhoods--Mexico--Mexico City--Fiction.

Neighborhoods.

Carpenters--Fiction.

Carpenters.

Psychic trauma.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Recluses--Fiction.

Recluses.

Psychic trauma--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Anansi International, [2021]

Summary:

"Galo has not left his home on Amsterdam Street, not since the day in 1938 when a shocking act of violence split his family apart. His hermitage is made easier by the peculiar design of the street. It is shaped like an ellipse -- if you walk it, you will find yourself returning to the same place again and again. Playing host to Jewish refugees, Spanish exiles, and Latin American revolutionaries, his home becomes the school at which Galo learns about a world he never sees, and the ideals and terrors that shape history. He begins to realize that Amsterdam Street, the site of endless returns, may be the true centre of the world. Appointing himself the street's guardian, Galo witnesses the decades pass, knowing that everyone who walks away must one day come back. A novel of rare humanity and grace, The Guardian of Amsterdam Street is a stunning portrait of a neighbourhood where the whole of the twentieth century comes alive and a moving inquiry into how we shape the world, and how it transforms us in turn."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: El guardián de la calle Ámsterdam.

Other Format:

Online version: Schmucler, Sergio, 1959-2019. Guardián de la calle Ámsterdam. English. The guardian of Amsterdam Street.

ISBN:

9781487008284

1487008287

OCLC:

1195921618