A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.' –O, the Oprah magazine\nThe seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin’s tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, or the fallibility of parents.\nSeven Empty Houses offers an entry point into a fiercely original mind, and a slingshot into Schweblin’s destabilizing, exhilarating literary world. In each story, the twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin and reveals uncomfortable truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.

Seven Empty Houses

SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN

Oneworld Publications

* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 *\nA blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.' -O, the Oprah magazine\nThe world of Samanta Schweblin's short stories is dark and destabilising. Here, home is not a place of safety but the site of hidden danger, silent menace, unspoken resentment. Picture-perfect doors and spotless windows conceal lives in disarray, slowly unraveling in the face of obsession and fear, jealousy and desire.\nUnsettling, exhilarating and fiercely original, these prizewinning stories expose raw and uncomfortable truths about the people and places we think will keep us safe, and ask what happens when that promise proves empty.\n'Darker and more tinged with terror than her breakthrough novel, Fever Dream, this is Schweblin at her sharpest and most ferocious.' New York Times Book Review

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She s not his mother. He s not her child. The two seem anxious and, at David s ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is brought into shocking focus. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and desperation of family.

Fever Dream: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. 
The two seem anxious and, at David’s ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is brought into shocking focus. 
One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and desperation of family.

Fever Dream

Megan McDowell

Imposible saber que nos espera al cruzar el umbral de cada cuento de pajaros en la boca: atravesaremos las capas sucesivas de lo extrano hasta desembocar en lo espeluznante?, volcaremos sobre lo fantastico?, seguiremos la endeble frontera que separa lo insolito de lo increible? Con una imaginacion proteica, la autora nos devela los pensamientos, miedos e incertidumbres de ninos, adolescentes, hombres y mujeres enfrentados a un mundo hostil y misterioso que los conmina a la accion. Algunos rompen cabezas, otros engullen o escupen cuerpos vivos, cavan hoyos en la tierra, salen en extranas cacerias; los mas huyen por las carreteras de una region fantasmagorica. Indicios de lo inquietante en las situaciones de todos los dias: a la mejor tradicion del relato breve Schweblin no teme anadirle un punto de vista refrescante que no desdena la sensualidad

Pajaros en la boca (Mar Abierto / Open Sea) (Spanish Edition)

United States

Editorial Almadia

En esta historia todo sucede como en sueños, el miedo es una lluvia persistente que se acumula con un peso insostenible sobre la cordura de los personajes. Samanta Schweblin acomete el género mutante, difícil de precisar, que es la novela corta, y lo hace con sus mejores armas de cuentista, pero templadas con un aliento novelesco, que sabe adentrarse en el conflicto. Distancia de rescate es una presencia inquietante en una obra que, desde sus inicios, se ha distinguido por explorar los espinosos territorios de lo insólito y lo extraño. / A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. Shes not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.

Distancia de rescate (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Almadia

Distância de resgate

Fósforo Editora

Kentuki

Edizioni SUR

Siete casas vacías

PAGINAS DE ESPUMA NA

Kentukiler

Can Yayınları

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