Federico Falco
A Perfect Cemetery - Federico Falco
Charco Press

Páginas: 180
Formato: 20x14x3
Peso: 0.5 kgs.
ISBN: 9781916277861

FINALIST OF THE GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ SHORT STORY PRIZE In the middle of a blizzard a widow is looking out at the ruin of her late-husbands garden, when 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 familys home is lost, a father desperately offers his daughters hand in marriage to anyone who will take them in. And a towns mayor tries to fulfil his fathers dying wish: to design the perfect cemetery. In a series of interlinked stories written in disarming, darkly humorous prose, Federico Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and the strategies we must find to cope with death and painful longing.