Name: The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
Price: 26.48 EUR
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Author: Mariana Enríquez
ISBN: 9781954321960

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The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

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Physical Book

Author

Illustrated by

Preface by

Publisher

Language

English

Pages

206

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781954321960

Synopsis "The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories"

In 'The Secret Life of Insects', a forensic entomologist tries to solve the murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' becomes concerned by his wife's strange behavior, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fascination with octopi. In 'Come to Me', a woman visits a witch doctor who promises to forge an unbreakable bond between her and the man of her dreams, but things go horribly awry after the man dies. And in the novella 'Demoness', four high school friends reunite at a class reunion twenty years later and must face the long-buried truth of a demonic experience from their youth.Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale 'Señor Ligotti' represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. Now Valancourt Books is proud to present this collection of fourteen of his best stories, which also features a foreword by award-winning author Mariana Enríquez and stunning full-page illustrations by Spanish artist Luis Pérez Ochando. 'Very deft, smart stories that manage to do more in ten pages what most novels struggle to accomplish in thirty times that. Esquinca is a writer to watch.' Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

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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