All That Dies in April

Praise for All That Dies in April

"Hypnotic, almost ancestral voices echothrough this novel like whispers in the wilderness, like orphan criesand wounds of light accompanying us on a powerful journey from which none ofus will emerge unscathed." -Agustina Bazterrica, bestselling author of Tender is the Flesh

"A woman sets off from her mountain home in search of the ocean and the possibility of a better life. Spare and yet echoing with voices, Travacio's English-language debut captures the haunting cycles of death and displacement but also of life, joy, and the succor of community in a place where "families come together and break apart...as easily as storm clouds in the sky." An illuminating fable of family-both blood and found." -Kirkus Reviews

"An author I want to talk about all the time." -ANDREA ABREU, author of Dogs of Summer

"Travacio skillfully draws a desolate universe." -DOLORES REYES, author of Eartheater

"Mariana Travacio's prose so successfully endows the characters with bodies and Lina's voice with life that we can hear her whispering what she sees and what is happening in our ear, as if everything were a marvel and a secret ... Travacio has written a roadless road novel, in which characters invent a route that drags them step by step to meet a dark fate." -DEBRET VIANA, Página|12

"This is a novel of ghostly voices resounding in huge spaces, with a language that goes straight to the bone: no stridency, no superfluous adjectives, as if to these characters only the concrete existed." -WALTER LEZCANO, Clarin

"The female protagonist of All That Dies in April abandons a place reminiscent of Pedro Páramo's Comala, to discover the light of the plains of The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. ... Travacio's novel finds a way to show the life inhabiting those territories where nothing seems to appear." -VERÓNICA BOIX, La Nación

"A timeless fable about disobedience. In a poetic and concise style, Mariana Travacio's second novel narrates an odyssey taking place not on oceans or battlefields but on mountains and in a rural setting." -DANIEL GIGENA, La Nación

"Travacio's heroes are figures in transit, beings in search of a destiny they don't fully understand but chase nonetheless as if their lives depended on it. Or better: as if their lives depended on not reaching it." - PATRICIO ZUNINI, Infobae

Praise for Como si existiese el perdón

"One of the best books I read this year." -PILAR QUINTANA, author of 2023 National Book Award Finalist Abyss

"The best book I have read in ages. An old and new story on vengeance, men, and the open land. It feels like curvy and soft lines that gradually flinch until they almost perforate the reader experience." -ANDREA ABREU, author of Dogs of Summer

"Hard to put down and even harder to stop thinking about. It sits at the intersection of several literary genres that cut deeply through psychological echoes, repetitions, and transgressions in an unsettling and unforgettable way." -Latin American Literature Today