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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection
Hamburg: home of a lapsed writer and his statistician girlfriend. He is part of the 41 percent of the German population that hasn’t read a single book in the last three months; she decides to make up a game. The rules of the game are these: the two of them travel to a European city, separately, and try to find each other. They make no calls, leave no messages. They wander through Madrid, Munich, Coimbra. When they meet, they return home. But what happens if they don’t?
“The Peculiar State” is a haunting, mischievous new story from Patricio Pron, one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists and the author of My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain. A thought-provoking, city-hopping story from one of South America’s most important new writers.
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Hamburg: home of a lapsed writer and his statistician girlfriend. He is part of the 41 percent of the German population that hasn’t read a single book in the last three months; she decides to make up a game. The rules of the game are these: the two of them travel to a European city, separately, and try to find each other. They make no calls, leave no messages. They wander through Madrid, Munich, Coimbra. When they meet, they return home. But what happens if they don’t?
“The Peculiar State” is a haunting, mischievous new story from Patricio Pron, one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists and the author of My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain. A thought-provoking, city-hopping story from one of South America’s most important new writers.
An eBook short.
About the author
Patricio Pron (Argentina, 1975) is the author of four story collections, a book of essays, and five novels, most recently My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing In The Rain (Knopf, Vintage, Faber & Faber), translated by Mara Faye Lethem. His short stories have been published in the U.S. in The Paris Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Granta, Zoetrope, A Public Space, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Chicago Review, BOMB, and Conjunctions, among others. He has a PhD in literature from the University of Göttingen (Germany), and currently lives and works as a freelance writer and literary critic in Madrid.
www.patriciopron.com
Kathleen Heil holds an MFA from the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. Her translations, stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Chicago Review, BOMB, Diagram, Quarterly West, Gigantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere.
www.patriciopron.com
Kathleen Heil holds an MFA from the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. Her translations, stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Chicago Review, BOMB, Diagram, Quarterly West, Gigantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere.
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