My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

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

“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

“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