Mariana Travacio All That Dies in April review, recensie en informatie roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster. Op 9 september 2025 verschijnt bij World Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman van Mariana Travacio, de uit Argentinië afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Mariana Travacio All That Dies in April review en recensie
- “Hypnotic, almost ancestral voices echo through this novel like whispers in the wilderness, like orphan cries and “wounds of light” accompanying us on a powerful journey from which none of us will emerge unscathed.” (Agustina Bazterrica)
All That Dies in April
- Auteur: Mariana Travacio (Argentinië)
- Soort boek: Argentijnse roman, familieroman
- Engelse vertaling: Samantha Schnee, Will Morningstar
- Uitgever: World Editions
- Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
- Omvang: 164 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 19,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster Mariana Travacio
Set in a stark landscape of cliffs and precipices high above the Argentine pampas, Mariana Travacio’s All That Dies in April follows the members of one small family as each makes a solitary journey out of their treacherous mountain home in search of a better life.
Lina has dreamt for years of leaving her tiny village in the drought-stricken region. Her son left long ago to find work and a better fortune. Relicario, her husband, is content to stay put in the land of his ancestors, tending to their graves. Ignoring Relicario’s pleas, a desperate Lina decides to abandon their home in search of her son, work, and water. She starts her journey on foot, and Relicario eventually follows behind, bringing a donkey and a sack with his ancestors’ bones. Both witness unspeakable violence, cruelty, and folly, but the hope of reuniting their family keeps them alive.
Poetically charged, restrained, and delicately condensed, this is a suspenseful ancestral tale rooted in a long Latin American history of rural displacement and perpetual inequality.