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A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)“Horror has found its master.”—Joy Williams 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...

“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF TIME, ESQUIRE, AND BOOKRIOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 (SO FAR) • A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–sho...

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, disturbi...

A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve. Father and son are now in flight, hunted by the Order. Surrounded by horrors, can they break free? An emotionally powerful, thrillingly paced gothic road trip, from the author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve - from cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.

A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the long-awaited debut novel from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed-"the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time" (Kazuo Ishiguro) "We have children so we can continue, they are our immortality." A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • "The lauded Argentine author of What We Lost in the Fire returns with enthralling stories conjured from literary sorcery" (O: The Oprah Magazine), in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges.KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Oprah Daily • New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • "Mariana Enriquez's stories are smoky, carnal, and dazzling."-Lauren ...

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This is what I am reading, short stories by the gifted Argentine writer and journalist Mariana Enriquez. Her work: tainted rivers, corrupted streets, spoiled meat, slain children, deeply registers the horror of known commonplace. She writes her stories, based in the atmosphere of truth, with a darkly descriptive poetic turn' PATTI SMITH Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city of nightmares and strange imaginings, where missing children come back from ...

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 w...

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies ...

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. In these stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortázar, three young friends distract ...