Synopses & Reviews
All My Goodbyes is
a virtuoso performance. A love story told in razor sharp fragments, the novel lies at the intersection of memory, violence and trauma."--
Katie Kitamura
A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident,
self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns
herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and
lovers. Then, arriving in the southernmost region of Patagonia, she
convinces herself she has found happiness, until she's caught up in the
horrific murders that haunt her story.
Review
"A marvelously interior novel, unique in its perceptions, that traffics both in the joy of invention and the sorrow of memory." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Review
"How to describe the clear and mysterious force of Mariana Dimópulos's
writing: the brief intensity; the compassionate irony; the grand themes
viewed through the lens of a microscope; the recognition and exceeding
of past traditions. Above all, it is a writing gestated in unknown
lands." Esther Cross
Review
"Mariana Dimópulos's wonderfully strange and addictive All My Goodbyes
is narrated by a woman driven to abandon everything the moment it
becomes familiar. The scattered pieces of her story — each of them
wonderfully distinct, laced with insight, violence, and
sensuality — cohere into a profound evocation of restlessness, of the
sublime and imprisoning act of letting go." Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
About the Author
Alice Whitmore is a Melbourne-based writer and literary translator. Her
previous translation from the Spanish for Giramondo was Guillermo
Fadanelli's novella
See You At Breakfast? She lectures in literary studies and translation at Monash University.