- Published: 06/04/2017
- ISBN: 9781846276354
- Granta Books
- 208 pages
Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez
Translated by Megan McDowell
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 the flames…
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Bright with brilliance... The stories [create] a sensibility as distinctive as that found in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. They are a portrait of a world in fragments, a mirrorball made of razor blades
John Self, Guardian
An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror ... you [will] return home looking pale and haunted
‘Best Summer Books’ selected by Mark O’Connell, Observer
Slim but phenomenal... The spookiness of these 12 stories sets into the reader's mind like a jet stone, sparkling through all that darkness
Vanity Fair
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