Canción Eduardo Halfon Lisa Dillman Translation Daniel Hahn Translation by Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (translation), Daniel Hahn (translation) 9781954276086, 1954276087, 2022020505 instant download after payment.

Cálamo Extraordinary Prize Winner

Big Other Book Award Finalist

Dublin Literary Award Longlist [winner announced in May 2024]

InCanción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories. Soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather’s captors, including a butcher nicknamed“Canción” (or song). As a brutal & complex history emerges against the backdrop of the Guatemalan Civil War, Halfon finds echoes in the stories of a woman he meets in Japan whose grandfather survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Through exquisite prose & intricate storytelling, Halfon exposes the atrocities of war & the effect that silence & extreme violence have on family & identity.

Eduardo Halfon is the author of The Polish Boxer, Monastery, & Mourning. He is the recipient of the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, Roger Caillois Prize, José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, International Latino Book Award, & the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. A citizen of Guatemala & Spain, Halfon was born in Guatemala City, attended school in Florida & North Carolina, & has lived in Nebraska, Spain, Paris,& Berlin.

Daniel Hahn translates literary fiction from Portuguese, Spanish & French. The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; & Agualusa's A General Theory of Oblivion was shortlisted for the 201