Good and Evil and Other Stories

Remarkably taut, clear, precise, and yet capable of capturing the extent of our human messiness, these stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside -- Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
No one writes like Samanta Schweblin. Her narratives are sui generis - wonderfully unpredictable and invitingly strange -- Lorrie Moore, author of I am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
Samanta Schweblin combines the urgent propulsion that characterizes all great storytelling with precise, if uncanny, descriptions of human feelings that often go unnamed, those ambiguous zones of human reality where awe, dread, and desire mingle -- Siri Hustvedt, author of Memories of the Future
'Samanta Schweblin writes at the very end of the possible. Her stories are mesmerising, exquisitely crafted and deeply unsettling. Each sentence is as precise and invasive as an expertly wielded scalpel' -- Jan Carson, author of The Raptures, on Seven Empty Houses
'The book I wish I had written' -- Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream
'Read this in a single sitting and by the end I could hardly breathe. It's a total mind-wrecker. Amazing. Thrilling' -- Max Porter on Fever Dream
'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales of people who have slipped through cracks or fallen down holes into alternate realities' -- J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winning author of Disgrace, on Mouthful of Birds
'Schweblin has a true talent for getting to the centre of our fears and drawing them out' -- Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters, on Little Eyes
'Schweblin's particular genius lies in the fact that there’s something inherently savage and ungovernable about her work' -- Financial Times, on Seven Empty Houses
'Schweblin's imagination seemingly knows no bounds’ -- Vanity Fair on Mouthful of Birds
‘A master of elegant and uncanny fiction . . . she can evoke more feelings in one sentence than many writers can in a whole story . . . a writer whose potential is beginning to seem limitless’ -- NPR on Mouthful of Birds
‘Strange and beautiful' -- Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars, on Mouthful of Birds
'Genius' -- Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror, on Fever Dream
'Sickeningly good' -- Emma Cline, author of The Guest, on Fever Dream
'Schweblin delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense' -- The Economist, on Fever Dream