A perfect cemetery, paperback/federico falco

His stories shimmer like revelations - the clarity, mystery, beauty, depth, and sheer, thrilling peculiarity of ordinary life when the veil lifts.

Theyre exhilarating to read, just as exhilarating to re-read.

--Deborah Eisenberg Childhood does not last long in the Argentine mountains of C rdoba, 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-husbands 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 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 fulfill his fathers dying wish - to design the perfect cemetery.

About author(s): 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 , Guernica , The Guardian , The Chicago Tribune and elsewhere.