- Published: 03/02/2022
- ISBN: 9781783788217
- Granta Books
- 208 pages
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
Translated by Megan McDowell
‘Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolaño, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train’ – Dave Eggers
Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. These brilliant, unsettling tales of revenge, witchcraft, fetishes, disappearances and urban madness spill over with women and girls whose dark inclinations will lead them over the edge.
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After you've lived in Enriquez's marvellous brain for the time it takes to read The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, the known world feels ratcheted a few degrees off centre. Smoky, carnal and dazzling
Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
I loved these twisted, lustful whispers in the dark. There is serious power in this writing
Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters
A weird and wonderful exploration of contemporary horror - cities falling apart, society turning on itself, the loneliness of the internet age. But more than that: these stories are fun. Wild, triggering, sinister, button-pushing fun
Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
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