My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
Title | My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Patricio Pron |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307745422 |
The American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a daring and deeply affecting story of one Argentine family’s buried secrets. When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth—not only about his father but an entire generation—comes to light, the narrator is forced to confront the ghosts of Argentina’s dark political past, as well as long-hidden memories about his own family’s history. Powerful and audacious, this semi-autobiographical novel is a thoroughly original story of corruption and responsibility, of history and remembrance, from one of South America’s most important new writers.
My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain
Title | My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Patricio Pron |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0571277152 |
This is a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family; a story of fathers and sons, corruption and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery at its heart. 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 with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place - revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget, but also the legacy of an entire generation - My Father's Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice.
Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone who Lives on These Streets
Title | Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone who Lives on These Streets PDF eBook |
Author | Patricio Pron |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0451493176 |
From the acclaimed Argentine writer, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a bold, ambitious new novel about how art became politics and politics became crime during the cataclysm of the Second World War. Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective--interviews survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the 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? Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a razor-sharp, completely original exploration of our most timeless concerns--guilt, betrayal, the legacy of earlier generations--and probes the question of what literature is: how it explains our times and irrevocably changes our lives.
The Tango Singer
Title | The Tango Singer PDF eBook |
Author | Tomás Eloy Martínez |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2014-07-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408857499 |
Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life, and to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances map a dark labyrinth of the city's past.
The Peculiar State
Title | The Peculiar State PDF eBook |
Author | Patricio Pron |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 23 |
Release | 2015-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110197043X |
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection Hamburg: home of a lapsed writer and his statistician girlfriend. He is part of the 41 percent of the German population that hasn’t read a single book in the last three months; she decides to make up a game. The rules of the game are these: the two of them travel to a European city, separately, and try to find each other. They make no calls, leave no messages. They wander through Madrid, Munich, Coimbra. When they meet, they return home. But what happens if they don’t? “The Peculiar State” is a haunting, mischievous new story from Patricio Pron, one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists and the author of My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain. A thought-provoking, city-hopping story from one of South America’s most important new writers. An eBook short.
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
Title | In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Bell |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Grief |
ISBN | 1616952539 |
A newly-wed couple escape a busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to lead a simple life there, fishing the lake, trapping the nearby woods and building a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife's beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods... A powerful exploration of the limits of parenthood and marriage.
The White and the Gold
Title | The White and the Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas B. Costain |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 2022-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The White and the Gold" (The French Regime in Canada [Canadian History Series #1]) by Thomas B. Costain. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.