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Start giftingMy Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
Narrator
Ramón de Ocampo
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Translator
Mara Faye Lethem
Length
4 hours 48 minutes
Language
English
A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say goodbye 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 long-forgotten memories of his family's resistance against an oppressive military regime.
Told through the fragments of the narrator's investigation—as he pieces together not only a portrait of his father but also the legacy of an entire generation—My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a completely original story of family and remembrance: an audacious accomplishment by an acclaimed new voice.
Patricio Pron, born in 1975, is the author of three story collections and four previous novels and also works as a translator and critic. His fiction has appeared in Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, and the Paris Review, and has received numerous prizes, including the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award and the Jaén Novel Prize. He lives in Madrid.
A graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Ramon De Ocampo is best known for his television work, especially for his recurring roles on many hit TV shows, including The West Wing, Notorious, 12 Monkeys, Sons of Anarchy, Killer Instinct, Medium, and Major Crimes. His film work includes indie film hit Happy Endings and the summer action film xXx: State of the Union. He is the winner of a prestigious OBIE Award for his Off-Broadway stage work, and has performed all over the world. A longtime audiobook narrator, Ramon is an Audie Award nominee and has won eleven AudioFile Earphones Awards, including Best Voice two years in a row.
Mara Faye Lethem is a Brooklyn-born, Barcelona-based writer and literary translator from Catalan and Spanish. Her translations have appeared in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, the Paris Review, and McSweeney’s.
Reviews
“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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