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A Sunny Place for Shady People
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Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult, and the macabre, the stories explore themes of love, womanhood, LGBTQ...
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
A delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night
A delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night
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Description
Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult, and the macabre, the stories explore themes of love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood, and Argentina's brutal past.
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ISBN: 9781803511245
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Megan McDowell
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
MARIANA ENRIQUEZ is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, and Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela. Mariana now lives in Launceston, Tasmania.
MEGAN MCDOWELL has translated Alejandro Zambra and Samanta Schweblin, among other writers. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
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