Read by Ramón de Ocampo

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. "Pron writes in a first-person voice that feels more confessional than fictional." "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." "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." "Startlingly brilliant." "Hugely rewarding and deeply unsettling." "Paints a vivid picture of the aftermath of Argentina's tortured recent history." "This is a riveting story, elegantly translated." "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." "A melancholy and chilling work of postmodernism, examining family, memory, and what collective fear does to a society." "A modern masterpiece written with beauty and purpose-this is a novel about everything that most matters in the world." "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." "This is an extraordinary book, and Pron is an extraordinarily gifted writer." "A sublime accomplishment, radiant and wrenching. You'll never see Argentina-or fathers or sons or the human soul-the same way again." "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."

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