Antoni Jach

Antoni Jach takes one of the oldest of storytelling forms, the traveller who shares with us the tales of other travellers, and makes new magic from it. Travelling Companions is a joy from start to finish. - John Connolly, author of he: A Novel and the Charlie Parker series Solitary travellers and a couple encounter Nina, an eloquent storyteller, on...

A party turns into a palace of storytelling. Around the unnamed artist-narrator, characters – comic, self-absorbed, ambitious, lost – approach and depart. Snapshots of vanished Australia and enchanted Italy depict the poignancy of memory, its inevitable twinning with self-confabulation and self-departure. Comic, compassionate, brilliantly composed, a travelling companion for the imagination. – Paul Carter An Australian journalist attends a party...