A PERFECT CEMETERY (UN CEMENTARIO PERFECTO)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701218C00099
English Summary/英文概要： Childhood does not last long in the Argentine
mountains of Córdoba, and adult lives fall apart
quickly. In a series of interlinked stories writen
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.
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 fulfil his father’s dying wish – to design the perfect cemetery.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在阿根廷科尔多瓦山区，童年的欢乐时光稍纵即逝，而成年人的生活也在瞬间崩塌。 费德里科法尔科(Federico Falco)在这部平和，黑色幽默的故事中，探讨了痴迷的爱、浪漫依恋的主题，以及我们必须找到应对死亡和痛苦渴望的策略。在暴风雪中，一名寡妇看着自己已故丈夫花园的废墟，直到她猛然间看到了一个在大雪中裸奔的女人。在告知父母她要放弃基督信仰后，一个女孩米兰上了一位摩门教的传教士，这个传教士让她想起了几年前在她的村子里被杀的一个男孩。一位失去了自己的家庭的父亲，拼命地想要将自己的女儿找到，一个托付给任何一个愿意接纳她的人。而镇长试图完成这位父亲的临终的意愿，为其设计一座完美的坟墓。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："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." --The Times Literary Supplement
"Expansive and ingeniously crafted--an unforgettable collection." --Kirkus, starred review
"Falco proves himself as a fine storyteller." --Publishers Weekly
"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)" --RTÉ
"Moving, morbid, and humorous at the same time." --LA Review of Books
"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, author of YOUR DUCK IS MY DUCK
"Each powerful story captivates and I cannot recommend this collection enough." --Morning Star
"When people praise Chekhov, stories like this are what they’re thinking of." --James Crossley, Madison Books
"Croft’s translations of the stories in A Perfect Cemetery are loyal to the profound beauty, rootedness, and longing they portray." --World Literature Today
"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." --La Nación
"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" --Ñ Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： 费德里科•法尔科(Federico Falco)是一位阿根廷作家和诗人。他拥有布拉斯帕斯卡大学信息通讯学士学位，和纽约大学西班牙语创意写作硕士学位。2004年，他被阿根廷科尔多瓦西班牙文化中心授予青年作家奖。2005年，他获得了了阿根廷国家艺术信托基金的资助，2009年，他获得了纽约大学和和桑坦德银行基金会的奖学金。格兰塔 (出版社) 在2010年评选法尔科为西班牙最优秀的年轻小说家之一。Federico Falco 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.
Jennifer Croft is the author of Homesick and Serpientes y escaleras and the co-winner with Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk of The International Booker for the novel Flights. 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 The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review Daily, The Paris Review Daily, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Granta, Tin House, BOMB, n+1, Guernica, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune and elsewhere.
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