Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire
Author: Mariana Enriquez
Publisher: Hogarth
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0451495128

The “propulsive and mesmerizing” (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night—now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: “The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro “Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken.”—The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year) Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation's troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, superstitions, lost loves and regrets, there is also friendship, compassion, and humor. Translated by the National Book Award-winning Megan McDowell, these “slim but phenomenal” (Vanity Fair) stories ask the biggest questions of life and show why Mariana Enriquez has become one of the most celebrated new voices in global literature.

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego / Things We Lost in the Fire

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego / Things We Lost in the Fire
Author: Mariana Enriquez
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 052543254X

"Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes", que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia domštica que se ha vuelto viral; una estudiante que se arranca las uąs y las pestaąs, y otra que intenta ayudarla; los aǫs de apagones dictados por el gobierno durante los cuales se intoxican tres amigas que lo serǹ hasta que la muerte las separe; el famoso asesino en serie llamado Petiso Orejudo, que sl̤o tena̕ nueve aǫs; hikikomori, magia negra, los celos, el desamor, supersticiones rurales, edificios abandonados o encantados . . . En estos once cuentos el lector se ve obligado a olvidarse de s ̕mismo para seguir las peripecias e investigaciones de cuerpos que desaparecen o bien reaparecen en el momento menos esperado. Ya sea una trabajadora social, una polica̕ o un gua̕ turs̕tico, los protagonistas luchan por apadrinar a seres socialmente invisibles, indagando as ̕en el peso de la culpa, la compasin̤, la crueldad, las dificultades de la convivencia, y en un terror tan hondo como verosm̕il. Mariana Enriquez es una de las narradoras ms̀ valientes y sorprendentes del siglo XXI, no sl̤o de la nueva literatura argentina a cargo de escritores nacidos durante la dictadura sino de la literatura de cualquier pas̕ o lengua. Mariana Enriquez transforma gňeros literarios en recursos narrativos, desde la novela negra hasta el realismo sucio, pasando por el terror, la crn̤ica y el humor, y ahonda con dolor y belleza en las rac̕es, las llamas y las tinieblas de toda existencia"--Amazon.com.

Our Dead World

Our Dead World
Author: Liliana Colanzi
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972408

A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family’s surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi’s stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America. Colanzi is considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices of the new Latin American narrative, and this book is an ambitious formal and thematic leap.

The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra

The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
Author: Pedro Mairal
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939931061

At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At twenty, he began secretly painting a series of long rolls of canvas in which he minutely detailed six decades of life in his village on Argentina’s river frontier with Uruguay. After the death of Salvatierra, his sons return to the village from Buenos Aires to deal with their inheritance: a shed packed with painted rolls of canvas stretching over two miles in length and depicting personal and communal history. Museum curators from Europe come calling to acquire this strange, gargantuan artwork. But an essential roll is missing. A search ensues that illuminates the links between art and life, as an intrigue of family secrets buried in the past cast their shadows on the present.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Author: Mariana Enriquez
Publisher: Hogarth
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593134087

“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken—fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history—with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can’t let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.

Fever Dream

Fever Dream
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399184619

“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations 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. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Hurricane Season

Hurricane Season
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811228045

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.

Posthegemony

Posthegemony
Author: Jon Beasley-Murray
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816647143

A challenging new work of cultural and political theory rethinks the concept of hegemony.

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393308808

"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"

My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
Author: Patricio Pron
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307745422

The American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a daring and deeply affecting story of one Argentine family’s buried secrets. When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth—not only about his father but an entire generation—comes to light, the narrator is forced to confront the ghosts of Argentina’s dark political past, as well as long-hidden memories about his own family’s history. Powerful and audacious, this semi-autobiographical novel is a thoroughly original story of corruption and responsibility, of history and remembrance, from one of South America’s most important new writers.