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My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
2011
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3.45
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The American debut of one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family-a story of fathers and sons, corruption and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery at its heart. A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say good-bye to his dying father. In his parents' house, he finds a cache of documents-articles, maps, photographs-and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place-revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget but also the legacy of an entire generation- My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice poised to garner equal acclaim in America.

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Patricio Pron
Patricio Pron
Author · 12 books
Patricio Pron (1975) es autor de los volúmenes de relatos Hombres infames (1999), El vuelo magnífico de la noche (2001) y El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (Literatura Mondadori, 2010), y de las novelas Formas de morir (1998), Nadadores muertos (2001), Una puta mierda (2007) El comienzo de la primavera (Literatura Mondadori, 2008), ganadora del Premio Jaén de Novela y distinguida por la Fundación José Manuel Lara como una de las cinco mejores obras publicadas en España ese año y El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (Literatura Mondadori, 2011) que será publicada en las editoriales más prestigiosas del panorama internacional, destacando Faber and Faber en Reino Unido, Flammarion en Francia y Knopf en Estados Unidos. Su trabajo ha sido premiado en numerosas ocasiones, entre otros con el premio Juan Rulfo de Relato de 2004, y antologado en Argentina, España, Alemania, Estados Unidos, Colombia y Cuba. Recientemente, la revista inglesa Granta lo ha escogido como uno de los veintidós mejores escritores jóvenes en español del momento. Pron es doctor en filología románica por la Universidad Georg-August de Göttingen (Alemania). En la actualidad vive en Madrid, donde trabaja como traductor y crítico.
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