In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes from his sister's Orthodox Jewish wedding into an erotic adventure with the enigmatic Tamara.
Contents
Tel Aviv was an inferno -- Bamboo -- The birds are back -- White sand, black stone -- White smoke -- Surviving Sundays -- Prologue at Saint-Nazaire -- Monastery.