A Sunny Place for Shady People
Exploring love, ghosts, and Argentina's haunting past
Mariana Enriquez author Megan McDowell translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:26th Sep '24
Should be back in stock very soon
This collection of short stories explores the intertwining lives of characters facing love, ghosts, and Argentina's dark past in A Sunny Place for Shady People.
In A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez presents a captivating collection of short stories that delve into the complexities of human experience against a backdrop of the supernatural. The narratives are rich with achingly human characters whose lives are intricately woven with themes of ghosts, the occult, and the macabre. Each story invites readers to explore the depths of love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, and the haunting remnants of Argentina's brutal past.
Enriquez, an International Booker Prize-shortlisted author, showcases her talent for creating vivid, unsettling worlds. The characters in A Sunny Place for Shady People grapple with their realities while encountering the eerie and the unknown, revealing the thin line between the ordinary and the extraordinary. The stories resonate with authenticity, drawing readers into the emotional landscapes of the protagonists.
This collection marks Enriquez's first since her acclaimed work The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, and it continues to solidify her reputation as a master storyteller. With each tale, readers are invited to confront their fears and desires, making A Sunny Place for Shady People a thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human in a world filled with shadows.
Superb... a collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form... It is Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life... Unsettling * Observer *
At her best, Enriquez has an unrivalled instinct for the subtly appalling image, a Lynchian (David, not Paul) sense of how horror inheres within the benign... Enriquez... is pretty much unbeatable * Guardian *
This collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the [horror] genre to an entirely new level... enticing... deeply unsettling, darkly humorous and, like all good horror movies and books, you can't look away - even for a second * NB magazine *
Superb... A collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
'A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world... A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best' -- Paul Tremblay
Seductively gothic... [Enriquez] is at the height of her powers... at her fiercest, she sets down morbid manifestations of misogyny and female desire, rooted by a scythe-sharp, bone-dry humour... this might be her most untrammelled-and certainly her most unwavering-collection yet * Prospect magazine *
'One of Latin America's most exciting authors' -- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
'Enriquez's short stories had already made me a fan for life' -- Kelly Link
'In Enriquez's fiction, blood isn't spattered off screen. It's splurged all over the picture' -- Adam Thirlwell
'A mesmerising writer who demands to be read... Her fiction hits with the force of a freight train' -- Dave Eggers
Bleak and often brutal horror * SFX magazine *
Terse and graphic ... an engaging view of inter-generational trauma and what happens to pain after death * PA Media (syndicated review) *
At their best these stories superimpose supernational tension on ungovernable emotions * Daily Mail *
Skin-crawling unease and psychological discomfort... striking... it offers a weighty read about the shadows that haunt humanity * Straits Times *
ISBN: 9781803511238
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272 pages