False Calm - Maria Sonia Cristoff Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him

mysterious mother and the shanty roofs of his neighbourhood to the malicious attack that changed his life forever and the ensuing struggle that made him a man

it is also a work filled with intimate human dramas and emotions

False Calm - Maria Sonia Cristoff Bernal Díaz del CastilloPart reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author Mara Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as she journeys from one small town to the next. Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left behind by the oil boom. She explores Patagonias complicated legacy through the lost stories of its people and the desolate places they inhabit. Everywhere, Cristoff blends superstition, myth