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A Perfect Cemetery (Paperback)
Federico Falco; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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"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."-Deborah Eisenberg Childhood does not last
long in the Argentine mountains of Cordoba, 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.
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.
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