"Hypnotic, almost ancestral voices echo through this novel like whispers in the wilderness, like orphan cries and wounds of light accompanying us on a powerful journey from which none of us will emerge unscathed." —Agustina Bazterrica, bestselling author of Tender is the Flesh

“An author I want to talk about all the time.” —ANDREA ABREU, author of Dogs of Summer

“Travacio writes with sharp lyricism and a killer pace.” —MARTA SANZ

“Travacio skillfully draws a desolate universe.” —DOLORES REYES, author of Eartheater

“Mariana Travacio’s prose so successfully endows the characters with bodies and Lina’s voice with life that we can hear her whispering what she sees and what is happening in our ear, as if everything were a marvel and a secret … Travacio has written a roadless road novel, in which characters invent a route that drags them step by step to meet a dark fate.” —DEBRET VIANA, Página|12

“This is a novel of ghostly voices resounding in huge spaces, with a language that goes straight to the bone: no stridency, no superfluous adjectives, as if to these characters only the concrete existed.” —WALTER LEZCANO, Clarin

“The female protagonist of All That Dies in April abandons a place reminiscent of Pedro Páramo’s Comala, to discover the light of the plains of The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. … Travacio’s novel finds a way to show the life inhabiting those territories where nothing seems to appear.” —VERÓNICA BOIX, La Nación

“A timeless fable about disobedience. In a poetic and concise style, Mariana Travacio’s second novel narrates an odyssey taking place not on oceans or battlefields but on mountains and in a rural setting.” —DANIEL GIGENA, La Nación

“Travacio’s heroes are figures in transit, beings in search of a destiny they don’t fully understand but chase nonetheless as if their lives depended on it. Or better: as if their lives depended on not reaching it.” — PATRICIO ZUNINI, Infobae

• Set in a stark landscape high above the Argentine pampas, Mariana Travacio’s All That Dies in April follows the members of one small family as each makes a solitary journey out of their treacherous mountain home in search of a better life
• Mariana Travacio is Argentina’s best-kept secret with her distinct voice and form, entrenched in the Latin American tradition of rural displacement and perpetual inequality
• Travacio is a sort of Coetzee or Cormac McCarthy of South America
• All That Dies in April is a roadless road novel that strips our world bare so we can see just how complex it is.
• Told in short chapters like clockwork from three different perspectives
• Early endorsements from Pilar Quintana, Andrea Abreu, Brenda Navarro
• English translations of her short stories were published in Two Lines Journal and Latin American Literature Today
• Hay Festival Book Club selection
• Inaugural title of the Read the World series