| Record Number |
876409 |
| ISBN |
9781925849516 (paperback) |
| Author |
Monge, Emiliano, 1978- author. |
| Title |
What goes unsaid : a memoir of fathers who never were / Emiliano Monge ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne. |
| Publisher/Date |
Melbourne, VIC : Scribe, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Pagination etc. |
353 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm. |
| Summary Note |
In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years. A decade later, his son, Carlos Monge Sanchez, deserts his family too, joining a guerrilla army of Mexican revolutionaries. Their stories are unspooled by grandson and son Emiliano, a writer, who also chooses to escape reality, by creating fictions to run away from the truth. What Goes Unsaid is an extraordinary memoir that delves into the fractured relationships between fathers and sons, grandfathers and grandsons; that disinters the ugly notions of masculinity and machismo that all men carry with them - especially in a patriarchal culture like Mexico. It is the story of three men, who - each in his own way - flee their homes and families in an attempt to free themselves. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Subject - Name |
Monge, Emiliano, -- 1978-Family |
| Monge McKay, Carlos -- Family |
| Monge Sánchez, Carlos -- Family |
| Subject |
Fathers -- Mexico -- Biography |
| Fathers and sons -- Mexico |
| Absentee fathers -- Mexico |
| Authors, Mexican -- 21st century -- Biography |
| Autobiographies. |
| Added Author |
Wynne, Frank translator. |
| Shelf Location |
306.8742 MONG |
