Proceed With Caution

Stories and a Novella

By Patricia Ratto, Translated by Andrea G. Labinger

FICTION

171 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB

Trade Paper, $15.99 (US $15.99) (CA $20.99)

Publication Date: January 2021

ISBN 9781943156849

Rights: WOR

Schaffner Press (Jan 2021)

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Overview

A powerful collection brimming with human emotion, animal instinct, and a sense of wonder and mystery that announces the arrival of a formidable new voice in translated literature

Unsettling tales from an Argentine master of the macabre.

Following in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka, and beside contemporary luminaries Guadalupe Nettel and Amparo Dávila, Patricia Ratto’s Proceed With Caution offers an alternate reality that is as unsettling as it is familiar.

Whether it’s a malevolent act born from the escalating paranoia and madness of living under a totalitarian regime, or the creeping dread that blankets a small whaling town, these stories linger in the memory, questioning where the natural world ends and the supernatural begins. Experience an atmospheric collection of short stories and a novella that will leave you questioning reality itself. For readers of literary fiction, short story enthusiasts, and those interested in Argentine literature.

Reviews

"Seldom has the clandestine nature of observation been so luminous as in Patricia Ratto's excellent Proceed With Caution." —Terese Svoboda, Author of Great American Desert

"Argentinian writer Ratto's revalatory [...] English-language debut collects stories and a novella featuring intensely watchful, unassuming narrators who imbue the stories with a sense of foreboding." —Publishers Weekly

"Often eerie, sometimes bizarrely comical, other times head-shakingly disconcerting...Argentinian writer Patricia Ratto makes an engrossing English-language debut with eight stories and a novella that prove--in a word--highly unpredictable." —Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness

Author Biography

Patricia Ratto is an acclaimed writer from Argentina. Andrea Labinger is a translator of Spanish and South American literature.

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