In Under the Black Water, a Lovecraftian series of events leads District Attorney, Marina Pinot, to a defiled church and a ghostly procession in honour of the dead. And as she grows in power, she muses that “not even Odysseus could talk his way past [her] witchcraft. The collection mostly avoids shocks for the sake of shocks, though her descriptions of gore and the damage done to the human body are certainly visceral and could upset the under-prepared horror reader. Things We Lost in the Fire - After a rash of domestic violence, women begin setting themselves on fire. Los relatos tienen su buena cantidad de palabras y yo, cuando se trata de compilaciones, prefiero los relatos breves.

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Whether they be narcos, drug users or transvestites, they all come to life on the page, and in the intense, scary, manic and yet somewhat familiar world of the novel. Es maravilloso ver cómo en estos relatos aparecen algunas imágenes, algún personaje, algún hecho que después maduraría y se transformaría para volver a salir en su obra más famosa.

Quite a sharp edge in these stories and she has a lot to say about women, girls trying to be in the world, the confines of bad marriages, the ravages of poverty and addiction. Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements.

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Henry Prizes, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize (four times) and the Kirkus Prize.

Si tuviera que ponerle un pero, es que algunos relatos me dejaban con ganas de más, y les sentía un final algo brusco. Tales of self-mutilation, incessant nightmares of being chased by amputated legs and arms, a woman's obsession with a toothless human skull. Enriquez’s particular gift is to intuit that horror and ghost stories – ancient genres, as old as humanity itself – might make better gateways into a country’s past than straightforward narrative. In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. Our protagonist plans to scare the Inn owner after her father, a tour guide and star employee is fired from his job.

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Here, the women of an unidentified city are seized by a craze for self-immolation, aiming to make themselves grotesque and undesirable – a subversion of an earlier spate of attacks on women by abusive partners. The sheer horrifying violence of his death is a shock, and it heightens the narrator's sense of terrible guilt, her conviction (irrational in others' eyes) that the murdered boy is the 'dirty kid', as well as making a mockery of her romantic image of the neighbourhood. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories written by Mariana Enriquez which was published in February 10, 2016.

Corporeal visions of a child killer become caught up with his resentment of his wife and newborn son. It’s been quite some time since I read a short story collection, and this book being one of the three group reads for the F ortnight Frights readathon had me curious. Time and time again, the stories cut off in what seems to be the middle of the most intriguing part, and end without explaining what has happened. Finally, the title story chronicles a bit of mass hysteria in which women start self-immolating as a protest against domestic violence.