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A Sunny Place for Shady People Stories

Pages
272
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, these twelve stories follow ordinary people—mostly women—as their lives collide with the supernatural. From a neighborhood haunted by ghosts to a family whose faces begin to melt away, each tale explores the thin line between everyday reality and the macabre. These eerie narratives find terror in the mundane, offering a dark look at the shadows of modern life.

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About the author

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Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a degree in Communication Studies from the National University of La Plata. A journalist and columnist for the newspaper Página/12, she is a leading voice of the "new Argentine narrative" and is known internationally for horror-inflected fiction that draws on Argentina's dictatorship-era trauma. Her novel Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night) won the Herralde Novel Prize in 2019, and her work — including the story coll...

Characters

The Woman with GhostsProtagonist
The JournalistProtagonist
The ArtistAntagonist
Black-eyed childrenAntagonist
Mariana EnriquezSupporting
All characters in A Sunny Place for Shady People Stories