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Good and Evil and Other Stories

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No one writes like Samanta Schweblin - Lorrie Moore The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing, and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as... Read More
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Good and Evil and Other Stories

The strange and uncanny new collection of short stories from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream.

A dark, brilliantly ingenious new collection of short fiction from three-time International Booker nominee Samanta Schweblin.

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No one writes like Samanta Schweblin - Lorrie Moore

The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story.

A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing, and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch.

Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy is complicated by the inexplicable appearance of an injured horse; an attempted poisoning leads two writers to startling conclusions; a lonely woman's charity is rewarded with home-invasion. And in the shocking opening story, a mother surfaces from the depths of the lake behind her house, where she saw something awful yet alluring.

Guilt, grief, and relationships severed permeate this mesmerizing collection - but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love, and longing, each sinister and beautiful. Step by step these unnerving stories lure us into the shadows to confront the monsters of everyday life - ourselves.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035050178

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Picador

Contributors:

  • Translated by Megan McDowell

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 210g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Samanta Schweblin won the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection, Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages, and her stories have appeared in English in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell is a translator from the US, and has collaborated with authors including Alejandro Zambra, Mariana EnrΓ­quez and Samanta Schweblin. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Fiction, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize and the Kirkus Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently resides in Chile.

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