This book chronicles the lives of people who came to Argentina from all over the world. Weaving personal and collective experiences, Andrés Neuman creates a family saga grounded in the country's dramatic 20th-century history. The narrator traces a genealogy of unforgettable and vibrant characters and recalls events that occurred long before his birth. Balancing humor and elegy, the book becomes simultaneously a coming-of-age novel, a political statement, and an ode to the departed. Andrés Neuman (b. 1977) is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet, and journalist. Neuman's books have received major awards and have been translated into several languages. His novel "The Wanderer of the Century," published in Russian in 2024, won the Alfaguara Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world.