Lumbre
Hernán Ronsino

FICTION | 2013 | 288 pages

Hernán Ronsino closes the cycle that began with La decomposición and Glaxo, marked by the universe of a town where things are only half-said and half-known.

The protagonist Federico is a screenwriter who returns to his village after hearing about the death of Pajarito Lernú, who left him a cow. From that point on, following the footsteps of its inhabitants’ memories, a myriad of stories come undone, converging to tell the story of the town of Chivilcoy—Sarmiento’s presence, the railroad, and Carlos Ortiz, the modernist poet whose murder was depicted in the film La sombra del pasado, shot with local actors in 1910.

An exceptional and arborescent novel that confirms Ronsino’s writing as some of the finest and most outstanding of Argentina’s current literary landscape.

RIGHTS: spanish ETERNA CADENCIA | german BILGER | french GALLIMARD | italian GRAN VIA | turkish CINAR

BY HERNÁN RONSINO:

Caballo de verano
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Una música
FICTION, 2022
Cameron
FICTION, 2014
Lumbre
FICTION, 2013
Glaxo
FICTION, 2009
La decomposición
FICTION, 2007