A Perfect Cemetery - by Federico Falco (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>The mountains of Argentina pulse with life in these disarming stories of people radically reinventing themselves--to find love and connection, to escape their pasts, to offer a way out of the banalities of sorrow and loss in the present.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>His stories shimmer like revelations - the clarity, mystery, beauty, depth, and sheer, thrilling peculiarity of ordinary life when the veil lifts. They're exhilarating to read, just as exhilarating to re-read.</em><strong>--Deborah Eisenberg</strong></p><p>Childhood does not last long in the Argentine mountains of Córdoba, and adult lives fall apart quickly. In disarming, darkly humorous stories, Federico Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and the strategies we must find to cope with death and painful longing.</p><p>In the middle of a blizzard a widow watches the ruin of her late-husband's garden, until suddenly she sees a woman running naked in the falling snow. After telling her parents she is abandoning her Christian faith, a girl becomes infatuated with a Mormon missionary who reminds her of a boy killed in her village years before. When his family's home is lost, a father desperately offers his daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who will take them in. And a town's mayor tries to fulfill his father's dying wish - to design the perfect cemetery.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>These rich and authentic portraits of Argentinian lives are well worth seeking out...You could imagine Alastair McLeod or John McGahern paying homage. (5 stars) <strong>--RTÉ</strong></p><p>Expansive and ingeniously crafted--an unforgettable collection. <strong>--Kirkus, starred review</strong></p><p>The quiet assurance with which Falco addresses rural environments represents a departure recalling the perspectives of writers from the northern hemisphere such as Denis Johnson, Knut Hamsun or Tobias Wolff. <strong>--The Times Literary Supplement</strong></p><p>Moving, morbid, and humorous at the same time. <strong>--LA Review of Books</strong></p><p>Falco proves himself as a fine storyteller. <strong>--Publishers Weekly</strong></p><p>Falco is a master of the short story. <strong>--Martin MacInnes</strong>, author of INFINITE GROUND and GATHERING EVIDENCE</p><p>His stories shimmer like revelations - the clarity, mystery, beauty, depth, and sheer, thrilling peculiarity of ordinary life when the veil lifts. They're exhilarating to read, just as exhilarating to re-read. <strong>--Deborah Eisenberg</strong>, author of YOUR DUCK IS MY DUCK</p><p>Croft's translations of the stories in A Perfect Cemetery are loyal to the profound beauty, rootedness, and longing they portray. <strong>--World Literature Today</strong></p><p>Each powerful story captivates and I cannot recommend this collection enough. <strong>--Morning Star</strong></p><p>When people praise Chekhov, stories like this are what they're thinking of. <strong>--James Crossley, Madison Books</strong></p><p>At long last, Argentine author Federico Falco finally has a full-length work in translation. A Perfect Cemetery is a 2016 collection of five stories, several of which are much longer than traditional short stories (thankfully so). With confident prose, storytelling verve, and remarkable consideration for both character and landscape, Falco writes impressively well. Though plights of fancy embroil each of Falco's characters, they are conveyed with a compassion and authenticity that make them seem utterly lifelike. <strong>--Jeremy Garber, Powell's Bookshop</strong></p><p>Books to watch out for in 2021. <strong>--Irish Times</strong></p><p>As so often in this compelling collection, the stories only open out once you finish them. <strong>--David's Book World</strong></p><p>Every word and sentence, including those of Croft's sincere and illuminating note that concludes the volume, should be savored, consumed in a rush only during those moments when you're flying down the summer streets with Silvi on her bicycle as she searches for the boy she believes she loves. <strong>--On the Seawall</strong></p><p>Perfectly honed... [Falco's] skill is apparent in the originality of these plots, the economy and naturalness of the characters' conversations, and in the meticulous observation of a gesture that may encapsulate whole central motifs <strong>--Ñ Magazine</strong></p><p>The succinctness of the plotlines in these stories is inversely proportional to their vast narrative expanse, to everything the writing is able to carve out between the sharply curtailed dialogues and all that simmers underneath. <strong>--La Nación</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Federico Falco</strong> is an Argentinian writer and poet. He holds a BA in Communications from Blas Pascal University in Argentina and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. In 2004, he was given the Young Writers Award by the Spanish Cultural Centre of Córdoba, Argentina. In 2005, he received a grant for improvement from the National Trust for the Arts of Argentina, and in 2009, a scholarship from New York University and the Banco Santander Foundation. Granta selected him as one of The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists in 2010.</p><p><strong>Jennifer Croft</strong> is the author of <em>Homesick</em> and <em>Serpientes y escaleras</em> and the co-winner with Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk of The International Booker for the novel <em>Flights</em>. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in <em>The New Yorker, The New York Times</em>, <em>The New York Review Daily</em>, <em>The Paris Review Daily</em>, <em>The Los Angeles Review of Books</em>, <em>Granta</em>, <em>Tin House</em>, <em>BOMB</em>, <em>n+1</em>, <em>Guernica</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, <em>The Chicago Tribune</em> and elsewhere.</p>
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