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A sunny place for shady people : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION ENRI (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Hogarth, [2024]

Physical Description

257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre. Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the watertank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women--these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists"--

Notes

"Originally published in Spain as Un lugar soleado para gente sombría by Anagrama in Barcelona, Spain in 2024."--Title page verso.

Contents

  • My sad dead
  • A Sunny place for shady people
  • Face of disgrace
  • Julie
  • Night birds
  • Metamorphosis
  • Hyena hymns
  • Different color made of tears
  • The Suffering woman
  • The Refrigerator cemetery
  • A Local artist
  • Black eyes.

Added Authors

Megan McDowell