Name: A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
Price: 292.00 ZAR
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Author: Mariana Enríquez
ISBN: 9780593733271

portada A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mariana Enríquez

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.32 x 13.208 x 1.524 cm

ISBN13

9780593733271

A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories

Mariana Enríquez (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories"

WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST • BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s 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 stories.”—Los Angeles Times

“As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE TELEGRAPH, ELECTRIC LIT, PASTE, LATINA MEDIA

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all 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 women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s 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 I’ve made in fiction for some time.”

Mariana Enríquez

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Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is a journalist, deputy editor of the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12, and a teacher. Since joining the catalog in 2016, Anagrama has published the novels Bajar es lo peor and Nuestra parte de noche (Herralde Novel Prize and Critics' Prize 2019); the short story collections Los peligros de fumar en la cama and Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, published in twenty countries and awarded in 2017 with the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona in the category "Literature in Spanish"; the profile La hermana menor, about the writer Silvina Ocampo; the chronicles Alguien camina sobre tu tumba and her journalistic chronicles gathered in El otro lado. Portraits, fetishes, confessions (Edition by Leila Guerriero).

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