Name: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories
Price: 16.25 EUR
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Author: Mariana Enríquez
ISBN: 9780593134092

portada The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mariana Enríquez

Translated by

Megan McDowell

Publisher

Hogarth Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9780593134092

Synopsis "The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories "

"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time."--Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews 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 new 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 bracing 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 when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.

Mariana Enríquez

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Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is a journalist, deputy editor of the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12, and a teacher. Since joining the catalog in 2016, Anagrama has published the novels Bajar es lo peor and Nuestra parte de noche (Herralde Novel Prize and Critics' Prize 2019); the short story collections Los peligros de fumar en la cama and Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, published in twenty countries and awarded in 2017 with the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona in the category "Literature in Spanish"; the profile La hermana menor, about the writer Silvina Ocampo; the chronicles Alguien camina sobre tu tumba and her journalistic chronicles gathered in El otro lado. Portraits, fetishes, confessions (Edition by Leila Guerriero).

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