Description
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist…
A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink…
A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas…
The mountain fog is not what it seems…
Kermit the Frog dreams of murder…
In ten chilling stories from an ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, including Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Camila Sosa Villlada (tr. Kit Maude), Claudia Hernández (tr. by Julia Sanches and Johanna Warren) and Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker and Noelle de la Paz), horror infiltrates the unexpected, taboo regions of the present-day psyche.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Sarah Coolidge,Mónica Ojeda (Author),Tomás Downey (Author)
Published: 03/12/2024
Publisher: Two Lines Press
ISBN: 9781949641578
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 6.90″ L x 6.00″ W
About the Author
Enriquez, Mariana: – Mariana Enriquez is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night as well as two short story collections, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, all three translated by Megan McDowell. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.
Ojeda, Mónica: – Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels La desfiguración Silva, Nefando, and Mandíbula, as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras and Historia de la leche. Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos and the collections Caninos and Las voladoras. In 2017, she was included on the Bógota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.
Downey, Tomás: – Tomás Downey (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984) is a translator, screenwriter and one of the foremost short story writers in Argentina today. His work often draws comparisons to Mariana Enríquez and Samanta Schweblin. It tends to draw out the strangeness hidden beneath the surface of everyday life. He is the author of three short stories collections, Acá el tiempo es otra cosa, El lugar donde mueren los pájaros and Flores que se abren de noche.
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