All My Goodbyes

This highly acclaimed contemporary Argentinian novel is the first in Giramondo's Literature of the South series, featuring innovative fiction & non-fiction by writers of the southern hemisphere. It is translated from Spanish by Australian translator Alice Whitmore 

"All My Goodbyes is a virtuoso performance. A love story told in razor-sharp fragments, the novel lies at the intersection of memory, violence & trauma." — Katie Kitamura

All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Malaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) & back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, & relationship to relationship. 

The novella is, as the title suggests, a catalogue of goodbyes, the result of a decade-long cycle of self-inflicted alienation which the narrator, despite herself, seems fated to perpetuate. In its structure it recalls the rich Argentinian tradition of Cortazar & Borges; its language is by turns stark and elaborate, brutal in its economy & yet poetic in its imagery.

"To enter the space of All My Goodbyes is to cross a threshold into a broken world... Like forensic archaeologists, we sift through the debris left behind by the narrator’s restless European years: the people & the places; the serial, menial jobs; the budding relationships; the houses that could have been made a home... This novella captures the unnerving experience of scientific doubt - a contagious sense, which the narrator learned early from her father, that the world is not what it seems."  — Anna MacDonald, 3:AM Magazine

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Mariana Dimópuloswas born in Buenos Aires in 1973. A writer & a translator, she is the author of three novellas, including All My Goodbyes & Imminence, & a critical study on the work of Walter Benjamin. She teaches at the University of Buenos Aires.