Andres Montero – Death Comes in Rain: An Award-Winning Book of Six Stories by the Chilean Author

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04-25-2024 / 11:34

25/04/2024

A man sets off in the middle of the night for the airport to pick up an associate, goes off the rails and his car is left in the middle of nowhere in the Chilean countryside. Walking through the rain, he drips to the only house with lights on. And when they open the door, he finds himself in front of something he doesn’t expect…

Thus begins an involuntary escape from everyday life that leads to an anachronistic, unknown world. The Las Nalcas estate, the bosses and their children, fishermen, bandits and old men who keep secrets until they die, rich and poor, huge contrasts and a countryside that keeps its mythology alive…

Six stories stemming from the great oral tradition of Chile are united in a strange legend that flows fluidly, without limitations, but with a unique meaning. A dreamy, unpredictable book, where the only certainty is death which, like the rain, will always come.

Awards – Honors

The book received the “Chile Language Academy Prize” and the “Santiago City Prize”.

Andres Montero – About the Author

THE Andres Montero is a writer and oral storyteller. In addition to Death Comes Dripping Rain, he has also written the books Taguada and Tony Ninguno, as well as teenage books and the essay Por que contar cuentos en el siglo XXI. In 2017 the author won the X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska, at the International Book Fair in Mexico City, for the work of Tony Ninguno. He has also been honored with the Marta Brunet Award and the City of Santiago Award for the adolescent Alguien toca la puerta. For Death Comes in Dripping Rain he won the Prize of the Language Academy of Chile and the Prize of the City of Santiago. He directs the Casa Contada School of Literature and Oral Tradition.