The Memory Stones - Tapa blanda

Heart-wrenching ... a story all of us should read * Daily Mail on Hinterland * A moving account ... Brothers' elegant prose holds sentimentality at bay, complementing some impressive reportage * Financial Times * Intensely evocative ... Impressively accomplished * Independent * An illuminating and timely story ... a book that haunts and shames in equal measure * Guardian * There is poetry on every page, as well as pity, and the poetry is not always in the pity but in the joy of being alive on this earth * Irish Times * Brothers is a writer who tackles big themes, and whose novels help us to understand the world we live in. Her second is a powerful, searing, beautifully rendered story of the disappeared of Argentina -- Alexandra Pringle * Guardian, 'Best Books of 2016' *

Buenos Aires, 1976. Osvaldo Ferrero and his wife Yolanda escape the city's heat with their daughters, sensible Julieta and wilful Graciela, who is nineteen and madly in love. They will be the last days the family ever spends together. On their return to Buenos Aires, the Argentine military stages a coup. Friends vanish overnight, and Osvaldo, too, is forced to flee. When Graciela herself is abducted, Osvaldo can only witness the disintegration of his family from afar, while Yolanda fights on the ground for some trace of their beloved daughter. Soon, she realises they may be fighting for an unknown grandchild as well. The Memory Stones tells the story of the Disappeared, thousands of Argentinians who fell victim to the violence of the period. Depicting the despair and hope of one family as it seeks to rebuild after unimaginable loss, it is a devastating portrait of a country that has come face to face with terror, and the long dark shadow it leaves behind.