Fiction – Short Stories – Psychological – Horror – Literary

RELEASE DATE: 9/17/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by one of Latin Americas 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 possessedall 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 womenthese 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, Enriquezs stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquezs 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 Ive made in fiction for some time.

AUTHOR BIO:

Mariana Enriquezis a writer based in Buenos Aires. In English, she has published the novelOur Share of Nightand two story collections,Things We Lost in the FireandThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed,which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize in Fiction.

TRANSLATOR BIO:

Megan McDowellhas translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won numerous prizes, including the National Book Award, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile.