The Distance Between Us

English PEN Translates Award

"This is a book to set alongside Philip Roth’s Patrimony, Héctor Abad’s Oblivion, Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude, Martin Amis’s Experience, Albert Camus’ The First Man, and of course Kafka’s Letter to His Father." —Le Figaro Littéraire

"An extraordinary family story... Renato Cisneros delivers here the captivating narrative of a strange and disturbing filiation.
 A loving and lucid puzzle." —Le Monde

"Cisneros is a phenomenon in Latin America today." —El País

"The Distance Between Us goes far and appeals to the reader exactly because there is so little distance between what is written and what was lived." —Alberto Fuguet , author of BAD VIBES

"Just as a father is never prepared to bury his son, a son is never prepared to dig up his father”(...) It is within this tension that this magnificent novel lies, full of drama and suspense from the very first page." —Edmundo Paz Soldán , author of TURING'S DELIRIUM and NORTE

"The Distance Between Us is the story of a villain told from love. It dwells in the humanity hidden behind the themes left by war. It also narrates that other war: the one which all of us wage against our parents to become the persons we are." —Santiago Roncagliolo , author of RED APRIL

"No one that reads this book will be able to look at their family in the same way again." —Gabriela Wiener , author of SEXOGRAPHIES and NINE MOONS

"This is an impressive book. In writing it the author demonstrates great talent, as well as great courage." —Mario Vargas Llosa , author of THE TIME OF THE HERO and CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL

"People should read this novel to learn more about themselves." —Jorge Edwards , author of PERSONA NON GRATA

"A book so intelligent and moving, you wish it would never end." —Libération

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Praise for Renato Cisneros

"This thorough account of a powerful family will intrigue fans of Latin American literature." —Publishers Weekly

"An absorbing exploration of one family's clandestine roots and inherited lies. (4 stars)" —The Wee Review

"A relentless search by a writer to discover his family secrets." —Morning Star

"Uncompromising…. a rousing story of migration and identity." —Irish Times

"Cisneros shows great skill in interweaving two apparently independent stories, intelligently connecting them in an almost imperceptible manner at first, until one supports itself on the other like the backbone of the novel." —El Mundo

"Who is able to recount and connect, on the basis of a chance encounter between two Peruvians in a taxi in Madrid, the uprooting of the 21st century and its migrations and the enduring horrors of the 20th century? Only the talent and the voice of an exceptional author like Renato Cisneros." —El País

"Written with narrative dexterity and a rhythm that never falters." —Claudia Piñeiro , author of ELENA KNOWS

"A novel of extraordinary complexity, with dazzling prose, where the characters encounter history, the past and themselves." —El Mundo

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