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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.
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“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.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Pron writes in a first-person voice that feels more confessional than fictional.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Startlingly brilliant.”
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“Hugely rewarding and deeply unsettling.”
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“Paints a vivid picture of the aftermath of Argentina’s tortured recent history.”
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“This is a riveting story, elegantly translated.”
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“A melancholy and chilling work of postmodernism, examining family, memory, and what collective fear does to a society.”
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“A modern masterpiece written with beauty and purpose—this is a novel about everything that most matters in the world.”
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“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.”
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“This is an extraordinary book, and Pron is an extraordinarily gifted writer.”
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“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
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About Patricio Pron
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.
About Ramón de Ocampo
Ramón de Ocampo, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, was a cowinner in 2018 of the Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he has been seen on television, film, and stages all over the world, including recurring roles on such television shows as The West Wing, 12 Monkeys, Sons of Anarchy, and Medium. He is the winner of a prestigious Obie Award for his stage work.