“Radiant and wrenching. You’ll never see Argentina—or fathers or sons or the human soul—the same way again. [...] A sublime accomplishment.”

“Hugely rewarding—and deeply unsettling.”

“A beautifully crafted novel, rich in metaphors [...] My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain draws you in and holds your attention [...] Pron paints a vivid picture of the aftermath of Argentina’s tortured recent history.”

“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.”

“[...] where a normal detective story ends with the narrative pointing out a guilty party who will be punished and thus allow the universe to return to a state of order, Pron’s narrative points in all directions. The reader is given no comforting or definitive answers, merely a mandate to continue the search. [...] It is a technique Pron succeeds at beautifully—showing us enough broken pieces to allow us to imagine what was once whole.”

“This book combines a remarkable use of language with a solid, original and brilliant narrative technique, unfolded to tell.”

“The novel is a successful narrative device that uses genres and registers with intelligence and skill; it is agile, witty, disturbing and self-conscious.”

“The detective knot is not typical of thrillers: it has a moral background, as it is explained in the fragments that fuse the high literature and the intensity of the story.”

“A mature, well-conceived and well-executed novel, that has the rare solvency that only a true writer achieves.”

“I thought it was a book about one’s own memory, but it is a book about the collective memory. At times I was
lost in a search very much like in Trenque Lauquen, and in some abysms I was as hooked as with The Ring.”

“This is a brilliant, unforgettable novel. I was so entertained by Patricio Pron’s inventive, poetic, deranging sentences that I found myself thinking of Lewis Carroll.”