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Pron, Patricio (Translated by Mara Faye Lethem) : My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing In The Rain

Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY, 2013

ISBN 0307700682

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 220 pages. The author's first novel to be translated into English. One of the most important literary events of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British Edition, which is a softcover original only. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Patricio Pron's "El espiritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia" in a felicitous English translation. His brilliant breakthrough in English. "A young writer with memory loss returns home to Argentina to say good-bye to his dying father, a journalist. In reviewing the father's files, the son uncovers the older man's obsession with the disappearance and murder of a local man whose sister was 'disappeared' by the infamous Argentine military dictatorship in the brutal 1970's. In piecing together the mystery, the son-narrator learns that his parents led secret lives as leaders of an underground Peronist resistance movement. A melancholy and chilling work, examining family, memory, and what collective fear does to a society. Pron brilliantly draws a line from individual crime, which interests few, to the epidemic of social crime, which transforms generations" (Jonathan Schwartz). There are, by now, whole shelves of books on Argentina's Dirty War. Patricio Pron was a baby when the events in his book took place. His novel is thus a work of vicarious yet authentic remembrance, not of memory, as he could not possibly have any (hence the "memory loss" of his writer-protagonist and the title's evocation of "fathers", that is, elders, rather than just one father/parent), a work of re-imagination, and a work of art. An absolute "must-have" title for Patricio Pron collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and placed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Patricio Pron NYC, 22.IX.2013". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Pron's whirlwind-signature is dazzling. Laid-in are pristine copies of the Souvenir Materials of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and post-publication dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant new voices in world literature. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO ANTONIO MUNOZ MOLINA AND JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307700682.

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