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The dangers of smoking in bed : stories / Mariana Enriquez ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: London : Granta, 2021Description: 187 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781783788217
Uniform titles:
  • Los peligros de fumar en la cama. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PQ7798.15.N75 A2 2021
Summary: Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.
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Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.

Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten.

Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.

Text in English translated from the Spanish.

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