Perfect Cemetery

Federico Falco's stories explore themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment, and coping with death and longing. They are thrilling to read and re-read, revealing the clarity, mystery, beauty, depth, and peculiarity of ordinary life.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 175 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2021
Publisher: Charco Press

Childhood does not last long in the Argentine mountains of Córdoba, 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.

Falco's 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

Weight: 234g
Dimension: 131 x 197 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781916277861