Dont Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who ..., Patricio Pron
Dont Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who ..., Patricio Pron
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Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
A novel

Author: Patricio Pron, Mara Faye Lethem

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Peter Berkrot, Pete Bradbury, Mark Bramhall, Richmond Hoxie

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2020


Synopsis

Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man—a political activist or maybe a terrorist—interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Bold and incisive, Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a gripping examination of art-as-politics and politics-as-crime.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gavin on August 12, 2020

[Text bezieht sich auf die Hardcover-Ausgabe] Allgemein wird es für einen Künstler schwierig, wenn er mit allen möglichen Größen seines Fachs verglichen wird. Erst recht, wenn man ihn in bestimmten Regionen der Welt noch gar nicht besonders gut kennt. So ergeht es momentan dem Schriftsteller Patricio......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 10, 2020

I'll agree with the descriptions of "bold" and "ambitious" as long as neither are considered a synonym for "successful." Mr. Pron is attempting to satirize Fascism, which, as Spike Jones and Mel Brooks have demonstrated, is best accomplished through broad comedy. Subtly ridiculing the Futurist roots......more

Goodreads review by Francisco on August 09, 2018

La intención del autor es buena pero la historia y la fuerza del relato se diluyen hasta perderse. En mi caso me terminó aburriendo. A pesar de que Pron me parece brillante, el libro me decepcionó bastante. En primer lugar, porque las anteriores novelas que leí de su autoría me resultaron excelentes......more

Goodreads review by Mario on November 05, 2016

muy largo, tal vez fuese la trama ideal para un cuento. En el más P. Pron se cre un Bolaño pero de Bolaño no tiene nada.......more

Goodreads review by Aleister on September 11, 2019

No sé por dónde partir, pero debo decir que es un libro que aborda tantos tópicos que, a primeras, pareciera perder el hilo de la historia principal. Pero la historia principal son los distintos hilos que se tejen en torno a la pregunta de hasta dónde llega el arte, la literatura o la política. Dentro......more


Quotes

“Pron’s story is part suspense novel, one that explores several puzzles. It is also part historical investigation . . . He reveals each detail deliberately, letting the mystery build . . . A skillfully constructed exploration of past events that many Italians would just as soon forget.”Kirkus Reviews (starred)


Reviews from the original Spanish publication:

“Without a doubt, one of the greatest novels of the last several years . . . Dazzling.” —José-Carlos Mainer, Babelia / El País 
 
Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a feast.”—J.M. Nadal Suau, El Cultural
 
“A book of beauty and substance . . . A huge gift.”—Karina Sainz Borgo, Vozpópuli 
 
“A decisive achievement . . . Reading this, one feels grateful that books of this quality are still being written.”—José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural 
 
“In the wake of authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas or César Aira, Argentine writer Patricio Pron manages to double down on all the literary bets that came before him . . . With his previous work, Pron has more than demonstrated the greatness of his literary project and his talents as a writer; with Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets, he is at the pinnacle of Spanish literature.”—Anna María Iglesia, El Asombrario & Co.