Internationally acclaimed, wildly imaginative, dark and haunting - these South American gothic tales paint a vivid picture of contemporary Argentina
Mariana Enriquez is a novelist, journalist and short story writer
from Argentina. She has published two novels, a collection of short
stories as well as a collection of travel writings, Chicos que
vuelven, and a novella. She is an editor at Pagina/12, a newspaper
based in Buenos Aires.
Megan McDowell is a Spanish language translator. She has translated
books by Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Gonzalo Torne, Lina
Meruane, Carlos Busqued, and Mariana Enriquez. Her work has
appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper's, TinHouse,
and McSweeney's. She lives in Chile.
Bright with brilliance... The stories [create] a sensibility as
distinctive as that found in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. They are a
portrait of a world in fragments, a mirrorball made of razor
blades
*Guardian*
An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror ... you
[will] return home looking pale and haunted
*Observer*
Slim but phenomenal... The spookiness of these 12 stories sets into
the reader's mind like a jet stone, sparkling through all that
darkness
*Vanity Fair*
The only book that's ever left me afraid to turn out the lights...
mercilessly incisive and deeply creepy
*Irish Times*
Fiction doesn't get much better than this
*Let the Right One In*
Teeming with death, sex and the macabre, this short-story
collection by one of Argentina's rising literary talents might best
be described as Buenos Aires gothic
*Financial Times*
[Full of] claustrophobic terror... stylish and compelling
*Financial Times*
Propulsive and mesmerising... I will be haunted for some time by
this book
*New York Times Book Review*
Enríquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read... her
fiction hits with the force of a freight train
*The Circle*
Beautiful but savage... [Enriquez] gives the best horror stories a
run for their money... This is the best short story collection I
have read this year
*National*
An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror ... you
[will] return home looking pale and haunted
*Guardian*
Exquisite... unsettling and haunting... engaging and compelling
*New Internationalist*
These spookily clear-eyed, elementally intense stories are the
business. I find myself no more able to defend myself from their
advances than Enríquez's funny, brutal, bruised characters are able
to defend themselves from life as it's lived
*Boy, Snow, Bird*
It seems wrong, somehow to call this grouping of Mariana Enríquez's
stories a collection. There is nothing collected about these
stories. These stories unsettle; they disturb; they disquiet. Read
them!
*Get in Trouble*
Many of us have long looked up to Mariana Enríquez, one of the
great talents of the new literature from Argentina. Possibly the
most intimate one. Her writing is a prodigious blend which
reimagines certain traditions under that dreadful clarity we
identify as an author's voice. Sharp and intricate, her genre
awareness is deserving of nothing but my admiration. Sharing her
work is great cause for celebration
*Andrés Neuman*
When I read Mariana Enríquez's stories, I forget where I am. I miss
my subway stop. I hold my breath. Her fiction is that
pulse-racingly superb, that electric and original. Mariana Enríquez
is an essential voice in contemporary fiction, and The Things We
Lost in the Fire will be a sensation
*Find Me*
Enriquez's stories are not only supremely important, but addictive
and joyfully grotesque... Born from the scars of a nation, they
will leave a lasting mark on you
*Skinny*
Gripping
*Monocle*
Enriquez scratches satisfyingly at Argentina's underbelly
*Newsweek*
A detailed cultural portrait and a blend of realistic fiction and
fantasy, the stories feature spirits and murders, marriages happy
and sad, friendships and heartaches, all against the backdrop of
past and present Argentina... The author picks apart the
intricacies of human relationships and lays them out on the page in
a manner that is simple, but delicate...A thorough exploration of
the human condition,
*Storgy Online*
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