Proceed with Caution - Stories and a Novella

The stories in this collection originally appeared in different form in various publications.

About the author

Patricia Ratto is an Argentine writer and teacher. She is the author of the novels Pequeños hombres blancos (Little White Men, 2006), Nudos (Knots, 2008), and Trasfondo (Background, 2012) and the story collection Faunas (Wildlife, 2017), all published by Adriana Hidalgo Editora. Many of her short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies, while her novels have previously been translated into Italian, and her novella, Trasfondo, is scheduled to be turned into a feature film by award-winning Argentine director Pablo Giorgelli. Proceed With Caution is her English language debut. Andrea G. Labinger has published numerous translations of Latin American fiction. Gesell Dome, her translation of Guillermo Saccomanno's noir novel Cámara Gesell (Open Letter, 2016), won a PEN/Heim Translation Award and was long-listed for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award. Her most recent translation, Saccomanno's 77 (Open Letter 2019) was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Best Translated Book Awards.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Ratto
• Assisted by: Andrea Labinger (Translation), Andrea G. Labinger (Translation)
• Publisher: Schaffner Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781943156849
• ISBN: 978-1-943156-84-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 206 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature