By indirection find direction out: A very unusual Argentine novel

So Patricio Pron's novel My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain is a great example of a work that by indirection finds direction out: it's a novel about the Peronist political left in Argentina in the 1970s, and the dangers they faced include disappearance and death, and the disappointments they faced as they realized that they had built a cult of hero-worship rather than a sustainable movement, and the guilt about either survival or betrayal, and the guilty they felt about subjecting their children to lives in danger or hiding or on the run (the narrator recalls, when his sister prods him, that their father would go outside every morning and start the car - risking his own death by explosion before ever putting the children in the car for the ride to school - he'd forgotten why his father did that) - and yet the novel tells us almost nothing directly about these leftists and their actions. It's all told by a narrator whose father (note the weird plural in the title?) was part of the movement - and he, the son, left Argentina for Germany where he had mental problems and lost most of his short and long-term memory - but when called back to Argentina while father is deathly ill he slowly and gradually puts the pieces of his past, and his father's life, together, by looking at a collection of fragments his father had assembled - and even these fragments are not truly about the leftist politics but about a marginal figure who is murdered by some thugs who want to collect reparation $ he had received from the Argentine government, payment for the death of his sister - who in turn was a friend and comrade of the father. Long way of saying that the true theme of the novel seems to be pushed to the side and we only see it through fragments and glimpses - which could be a flaw, but which in fact is part of the portrait of the narrator: his coming of age is a gradual recollection and comprehension of the true activities of his parents, a knowledge that he'd run away from, repressed, and forgotten - but that now he feels is his burden and his mission. The fragments themselves for this unusual novel - and in a final twist, Pron in his afterword/acknowledgments/dedication informs us that the events described are about a true case of vengeance and murder (he apparently keeps the facts up to date on his website). It's a novel not exactly about the past but about a young man's coming to terms with the past - the past of his parents - and how their actions affected him, for both better (he's very devoted to his father) and worse (the fear instilled him his surely made him lose a large span - 8 years, as mentioned I think in the first sentence) of his adult life. A very provocative novel - could lead to some good discussion and analysis.