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A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories

A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories

Enriquez, Mariana
McDowell, Megan

Paperback

HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0593733274
ISBN13: 9780593733271
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: Sep 9 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER!

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.

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