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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (Translator)Publish date:2022-02-01Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hogarth PressISBN-13:9780593134092ISBN-10:593134095UPC:9780593134092Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, Hispanic & LatinoAward:2021 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCH73C24S5
"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time."--Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews

Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken--fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history--with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma.

Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hogarth PressISBN-13:9780593134092ISBN-10:593134095UPC:9780593134092Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, Hispanic & LatinoAward:2021 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCH73C24S5
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. She has published two story collections in English, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which 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.
Publisher: Hogarth Press

Awards

🏆 2021 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award

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