The dangers of smoking in bed
Subtitle: stories
By: Mariana Enriquez
Contributors: Recorded Books, Inc
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780593134085
Subjects: Translations into English; Argentine Short stories; Fiction; Nouvelles argentines; FICTION / Literary
Description: Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. 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 next 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 unsettling 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 by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly.Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.
Table of contents: title: Angelita unearthed --; title: Our lady of the quarry --; title: The cart --; title: The well --; title: Rambla Triste --; title: The lookout --; title: Where are you, dear Herat? --; title: Meat --; title: No birthdays or baptisms --; title: Kids who come back --; title: The dangers of smoking in bed --; title: Back when we talked to the dead.