Samanta Schweblin
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"The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that established Samanta Schweblin at the forefront of a new...
2) Little eyes
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"A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're...
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"A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English...
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Las casas son siete, y están vacías. La narradora, según Rodrigo Fresán, es "una científica cuerda contemplando locos, o gente que está pensando seriamente en volverse loca". Y la cordura, como siempre, es superficial.
Samanta Schweblin nos arrastra hacia Siete casas vacías y, en torno a ellas, empuja a sus personajes a explorar terrores cotidianos, a diseccionar los miedos propios y ajenos, y a poner sobre la mesa los prejuicios de quienes,...
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"La lista era parte de un plan: Lola sospechaba que su vida había sido demasiado larga, tan simple y liviana que ahora carecía del peso suficiente para desaparecer. Había concluido, al analizar la experiencia de algunos conocidos, que incluso en la vejez la muerte necesitaba de un golpe final. Un empujón emocional, o físico. Y ella no podía darle a su cuerpo nada de eso. Quería morirse, pero todas las mañanas, inevitablemente, volvía a despertarse".
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"Pájaros en la boca y otros cuentos supone la mejor vía de entrada al fascinante universo de quien, tras su nominación al Man Booker International Prize en 2017 con Distancia de rescate, es una de las voces de las letras hispanas con más proyección en el actual panorama literario internacional. Heredera de la más prestigiosa tradición literaria, en la línea de Raymond Carver y Flannery O'Connor, Schweblin maneja el lenguaje de una forma extraordinaria,...
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"[T]his year’s edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction...