My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

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“A modern masterpiece written with beauty and purpose—this is a novel about everything that most matters in the world.”

“Hugely rewarding and deeply unsettling.”

“Patricio Pron is an immense talent, a daring writer with an absolutely unique voice. My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a marvel.”

“This is an extraordinary book, and Pron is an extraordinarily gifted writer.”

“In the face of denial and forgetting, Pron has stitched the experiences of the activists, their survivors, and those who came later into a narrative that ties the individual to collective memory and a family’s history to a nation’s.”

“A sublime accomplishment, radiant and wrenching. You’ll never see Argentina—or fathers or sons or the human soul—the same way again.”

“A moving exploration of guilt and memory and an unflinching study of what history can do to us. Pron opens his eyes where the rest of us would rather close them and keep them closed.”

“This is a riveting story, elegantly translated.”

“Pron writes in a first-person voice that feels more confessional than fictional.”

“Pron is brilliant on the topic of growing up in the aftermath of heroic collapse. What’s more, Mara Faye Lethem’s translation gets his tone of numbed resignation just right.”

“A moving meditation on trauma, memory, and home…[and] compellingly displays—as well as explores—fiction’s power to unearth the most deeply buried emotional truths.”

“Startlingly brilliant.”

“Paints a vivid picture of the aftermath of Argentina’s tortured recent history.”

“A melancholy and chilling work of postmodernism, examining family, memory, and what collective fear does to a society.”

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