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Patricio Pron

    December 9, 1975

    Patricio Pron delves into the darker aspects of human existence through incisive prose and unsettling narratives. His work frequently explores themes of identity, memory, and the enduring impact of history on the present. Pron's distinctive style is marked by its precision and its uncanny ability to reveal the hidden tensions within everyday life. His writing challenges readers to confront the complexities of human relationships and the perpetual search for meaning in a chaotic world.

    El comienzo de la primavera
    Mañana tendremos otros nombres
    Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará
    Mañana Tendremos Otros Nombres. (Premio Alfaguara 2019) / Tomorrow We Will Have Other Names
    My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain
    Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
    • 2020

      From the acclaimed Argentine writer, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a bold, ambitious new novel about how art became politics and politics became crime during the cataclysm of the Second World War.Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective--interviews survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a razor-sharp, completely original exploration of our most timeless concerns--guilt, betrayal, the legacy of earlier generations--and probes the question of what literature is: how it explains our times and irrevocably changes our lives.

      Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
    • 2013

      As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place - revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget, but also the legacy of an entire generation - My Father's Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain tells a completely original story of family and remembrance.

      My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain