{"product_id":"a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-isbn-9780593733257","title":"A Sunny Place for Shady People","description":"\u003cb\u003eA diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Horror has found its master.”—Joy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A collection of brilliant nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“First-rate literary horror.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: \u003ci\u003eReactor, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome 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 water tank 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, \u003ci\u003eA Sunny Place for Shady People\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”“\u003ci\u003eA Sunny Place for Shady People\u003c\/i\u003e reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world. Enriquez’s characters’ desperate, longing struggle for meaning and hope has never been so poignant and beautiful, nor so damned chilling. A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best.”\u003cb\u003e—Paul Tremblay, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHorror Movie \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Cabin at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“When you gaze into the abyss, Mariana Enriquez looks up to you from those depths, grins to herself, and then gives her attention back to the next story she’s pulling into the world.”\u003cb\u003e—Stephen Graham Jones, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMy Heart Is a Chainsaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nobody does horror quite like Enriquez, whose stories linger at the edges of your consciousness long after they’ve ended—perhaps because of how she always keeps her focus on the human heart of her tales.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Literary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, Most Anticipated Books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vivid and unnerving, these stories confirm Enriquez as one of Latin America’s most original imaginations.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Bookseller,\u003c\/i\u003e Editor’s Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A masterful collection . . . these provocative tales are first-rate literary horror.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Readers blown away by Enriquez’s \u003ci\u003eOur Share of Night \u003c\/i\u003ewill welcome McDowell’s bravura translation of the author’s new collection of horror stories. Enriquez’s darkly humorous world view throbs throughout these weird and riveting tales, exerting the morbid fascination of a train wreck. . . . [These stories] are creepy enough to bring a shiver to every reader.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Enriquez’s \u003ci\u003eOur Share of Night \u003c\/i\u003eearned her a prominent place among innovative South American writers, and the stories here deliver the same squelchy charms. . . . A dozen pitch-black Argentinean stories laced with body horror, self-incrimination, and existential dread . . . solidifies\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEnríquez’s reputation as a purveyor of haunting and thought-provoking tales.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMariana Enriquez\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer based in Buenos Aires. In English, she has published the novel \u003ci\u003eOur Share of Night\u003c\/i\u003e and two story collections, \u003ci\u003eThings We Lost in the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed,\u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy \u0026amp; Speculative Fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won numerous prizes, including the National Book Award, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. 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