All That Dies in April

<p><b>Set in a stark landscape of cliffs and precipices high above the Argentine pampas Mariana Travacio's <i>All That Dies in April</i> 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.</b></p><p>"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." <span>-</span><span>Agustina Bazterrica </span><span>bestselling author of</span><span> </span><i><span>Tender is the Flesh</span></i></p><p>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.</p>