My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain Audiobook

Quotes

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

  — New Yorker

• “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.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “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.”

  — The Independent (London)

• “Startlingly brilliant.”

  — Daily Beast

• “Hugely rewarding and deeply unsettling.”

  — New York Journal of Books

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

  — Washington Independent Review of Books

• “This is a riveting story, elegantly translated.”

  — CounterPunch

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

  — Booklist

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

  — Deborah Levy, Man Booker Prize nominee

• “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.”

  — Daniel Alarcón, award-winning author of Lost City Radio

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

  — Betsy Burton, KUER radio

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

  — Carolina De Robertis, author of Perla

• “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.”

  — Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Informers