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Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego

Stories
Pages
224
Published
2016
Language
English

Synopsis

Mariana Enriquez explores the dark corners of contemporary Argentina through a series of unsettling short stories. These tales blend everyday urban life with elements of the supernatural, focusing on social inequality, violence, and the ghosts of a difficult past. It is a stark look at how people survive in a world that often feels like it is crumbling around them.

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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...

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