by Patricio Pron · Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780451493170
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«Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets» is the mystery novel by Patricio Pron (Knopf, hardback, 304 pages, in English).
In April 1945, in Pinerolo (Italy), a writer disappears during a fascist conference and is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man, political activist or terrorist depending on perspective, interviews the survivors to reconstruct what happened; the investigation connects the episode with a teenager from Milan and with questions about art, politics, guilt and betrayal.
Novel translated from Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem; the original, «No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles», was published in 2016.
For readers of literary and mystery fiction with an interest in fascism, World War II and its aftermath.
Patricio Pron is an Argentine writer and literary critic translated into a dozen languages including English, German, French and Italian. Granta magazine selected him in 2010 as one of the 22 best young writers in Spanish of his generation. He won the twenty-second Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2019 for his work Mañana tendremos otros nombres among other prizes.
