A perfect cemetery
(Book)

"First published in Spanish as Un cemeterio perfecto by Eterna Cadencia"--title page verso.

"'Silvi and her dark night' was first published under a different title and in an earlier version by Granta (#113) and Granta en español (#11)"--Title page verso.

"In the middle of a blizzard a widow is looking out at the ruin of her late-husband’s garden, when 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 family’s home is lost, a father desperately offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to anyone who will take them in. And a town’s mayor tries to fulfil his father’s dying wish: to design the perfect cemetery. The mountains of Argentina pulse with life in these disarming stories of people radically reinventing themselves in order to find love and connection, to escape their pasts, and to seek a way out of the banalities of sorrow and loss in the present."--back cover.

In English, translated from the Spanish.