A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts goblins and the macabre by Buenos Airess sorceress of horror Samanta Schweblin The New York Times
Entertaining political and exquisitely gruesome these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted storiesLos Angeles Times
As vivid and essential as Kafkas talesMinneapolis StarTribune
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A BEST HORROR BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND VULTURE
On the shores of this river all the birds that fly drink perch on branches and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessedall those birds were once women
Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating frightening fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez In twelve spellbinding new stories Enriquez writes about ordinary people especially women whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror the surreal and the supernatural A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts a family whose faces melt away a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof a riverbank populated by birds that used to be womenthese and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life where the line between good and evil no longer exists
Lyrical and hypnotic heartstopping and deeply moving Enriquezs stories never fail to enthrall entertain and leave us shaken Translated by the awardwinning Megan McDowell A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquezs unique blend of the literary and the horrific and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature calls her the most exciting discovery Ive made in fiction for some time
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