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“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.

Mariana Dimópulos was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. A writer and a translator, she is the author of three novellas, Anís (2008), Cada despedida (2010) and Pendiente (2013), as well as short stories and nonfiction, including Carrusel Benjamin (2017), a critical study on the work of Walter Benjamin. She teaches at the University of Buenos Aires, and contributes to the cultural supplements of major Argentine newspapers Clarín and Página/12.

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.