A satirical novel about the Falklands War, NOSOTROS CAMINAMOS EN SUEÑOS is a tale of war and childhood in which no one is who they say they are, nothing is sacred, and patriotic language is in short supply.

Our narrator – a self-proclaimed coward from the start – walks us through a cast of absurd characters who live from moment to moment in the blind hope that they will not be killed yet, and who aren’t quite sure exactly who the enemy they’re fighting is. From one soldier “so stupid he could pass as a hero” to another with his finger stuck in a grenade, Pron’s novel is a collection of fragments from his childhood, fuelled by the lies he was told during the war by his parents and the press.

NOSOTROS CAMINAMOS EN SUEÑOS is a farcical examination of war, and also a story about the joy of turning childhood fears (to be bombed, to lose one’s parents, to leave behind one’s favourite things) into fiction and meaning.

Oh, and there is a bomb hanging in the sky, which never quite falls down.

First published in Spanish in 2011, Patricio Pron’s haunting debut MY FATHER’S GHOST IS CLIMBING IN THE RAIN, which published in May 2013 in the US and June 2013 in the UK, was extremely well reviewed and received numerous “Best of 2011” accolades throughout the world.

Praise for MY FATHER’S GHOST IS CLIMBING IN THE RAIN:

“Enthralling novel…Pron writes in a first-person voice that feels more confessional than fictional” –The New Yorker

“Deeply affecting.” —Metro (UK)

“Hugely rewarding and deeply unsettling.” —New York Journal of Books

“From a major new voice in Spanish literature, this novel should grant Pron a much-deserved readership in the English-speaking world . . . A melancholy and chilling work of postmodernism, examining family, memory, and what collective fear does to a society.” —Booklist

Previous sales for MY FATHER’S GHOST IS CLIMBING IN THE RAIN: Denmark (Forlaget Klim), France (Flammarion), Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Meulenhoff), Italy (Guanda), Norway (Pax), Spain (RHM), Taiwan (China Times), Turkey (Zen Kitapevi), United Kingdom (Faber), United States (Knopf)

Patricio Pron, born in 1975, is the author of three story collections and four previous novels, and he also works as a translator and critic. His fiction has appeared in Granta, Zoetrope and The Paris Review, and has received numerous prizes, including the Juan Rulfo Short Story Prize, the Jaén Novel Award, and the 2008 José Manuel Lara Foundation Award for one of the five best works published in Spain that year. He lives in Spain.

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