Name: Seven Empty Houses
Price: 248.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Samanta Schweblin
ISBN: 9780861546466

Type

Physical Book

Author

Samanta Schweblin

Publisher

Oneworld Publications

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780861546466

Seven Empty Houses

Samanta Schweblin (Author) · Oneworld Publications · Paperback

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Synopsis "Seven Empty Houses"

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 magazineThe 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. Unsettling, 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. '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

Samanta Schweblin

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Samanta Schweblin (Argentina, 1978) is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires, internationally recognized for her short narrative and unsettling style. Among her most notable books are Pájaros en la boca, Siete casas vacías, and the novel Distancia de Rescate (published in English as Fever Dream), which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize. She has been awarded prizes such as the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, the Premio Casa de las Américas, and the Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero. She resides in Berlin, where she continues to develop her literary career and is considered one of the most original voices in contemporary Spanish literature.

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