Trayéndolo todo de regreso a casa
Patricio Pron

FICTION | 2019/2021 | 416 pages

A circus performs a final show that ends in tragedy, a journalist searches for the story he can never allow himself to tell, an Argentine cow glimpses the moment before everything changes forever, several children disappear in a German village, a man tries to recreate the happiest moment of his life...

With echoes of Borges, Bolaño, Aira, and female authors he considers his teachers such as Flannery O'Connor, Lorrie Moore, and Amy Hempel, Patricio Pron's disturbing, groundbreaking, hilarious and surreal stories are captivating from the very first line. This volume features a selection by the author in which, along with some of his most critically acclaimed pieces such as “Salon des refusés,” “Es el realismo,” “Las ideas,” or “La repetición,” we can find lesser known ones and over ten previously unpublished ones that were written very recently. Each story provides a fascinating and unique reading experience; the opportunity to embark on a journey into the unknown and the unexpected.

RIGHTS: spanish ALFAGUARA | spanish (Costa Rica) LOS TRES EDITORES

“Literary talent in every sense of the word, Patricio Pron takes stock of his narrative work and we are excited to recommend this book that brings together the best stories by an author that has been accompanied with his original and revealing writing that is disturbing, unusual, ground-breaking and always attractive for readers who aspire to something more than well-worn trails, mediocre styles and routine topics. The selection covers from 1990 to 2020 includes critically acclaimed pieces as well as unpublished material, enabling readers to follow their distinct paths, evolution and perennial output of one of the most interesting names in contemporary literature in Spanish. Come and read. Do it calmly and attentively, because reading Patricio Pron is a festival for the intellect.”
— Revista Turia
“Readers will close this volume aware that they have come face to face with a true writer, someone who seeks, evolves, is restless with a self-conscious awareness of their superiority that will surely give (or will have given) readers displeasure [...] but no artist is truly an artist unless they believe that what they’re doing lives up to what they imagined in their youth, and that they have been fighting to achieve it. This book has in fact achieved it.”
— José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural
“Pron is one of the most powerful narrators of our time. Bringing It All Back Home, a volume that contains short stories from the last 30 years, traces the evolution of a writer who was already speaking about feminism in the 1990s and who has dedicated part of his time during the lockdown to confirming that literature is neither self-help nor self-healing but rather a huge repository of lives we will never live.”
— María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros, Valencia Plaza