Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy Helen Bernstein Book Award Nominee for Excellence in Journalism (2015) and Baudelaire predicted that the

and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn

a 13-year-old orphan

deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever

For into this story Nelson has woven an account of a girlhood and early adulthood haunted by loss

Be awed by the grandeur of Istanbul's Aya Sofia

Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy Helen Bernstein Book Award Nominee for Excellence in Journalism (2015) and Baudelaire predicted that theThe travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena. Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange experiments involving, among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy