False Calm
A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia
$26.46
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2025
Summary
With time I have reached the conclusion that, as it is in my personal history, isolation is present in everything I have ever read about Patagonia … I returned to write an account of this eminently Patagonian characteristic. I wanted to see the shapes it takes today; I wanted to locate it at its furthest extremes.
Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917092258 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1917092253 |
| Author: | Katherine Silver, Maria Sonia Cristoff |
| Publisher: | Daunt Books |
| Imprint: | Daunt Originals |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 132mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘It has a magical quality, an intimate journey, so humane, one that opens the imagination and reminds us of who we have been and what we have, and have lost.’ Philippe Sands
Katherine Silver
María Sonia Cristoff is the author of Derroche (2022, Sara Gallardo Award), Mal de época (2017, Médicis Prize Finalist), Bajo influencia (2010), and Desubicados (2006). Her books Falsa Calma (False Calm) and Inclúyanme afuera (Include Me Outside) have been published in English, translated by Katherine Silver. She has edited volumes on literary nonfiction (Idea crónica and Pasaje a Oriente) and participated in a series of collective works. She has been writer-in-residence in Iowa and Leipzig and her books have been published in several Latin American countries and translated into English, French, German, Italian and Swedish. She lives in Buenos Aires.
Katherine Silver has translated works by Horacio Castellanos Moya, César Aira, Julio Cortázar, Juan Carlos Onetti, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, and many others. She is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC), and the author of Echo Under Story. She does volunteer interpreting for asylum seekers.
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