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Seven Empty Houses
Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2022
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Seven Empty Houses
A brand new collection from the master of the spine-tingling tale
The collection that established Samanta Schweblin at the forefront of her literary generation, available in English for the first time
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A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, leading a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon. –O, the Oprah magazine
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin’s tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, or the fallibility of parents.
Seven Empty Houses offers an entry point into a fiercely original mind, and a slingshot into Schweblin’s destabilizing, exhilarating literary world. In each story, the twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin and reveals uncomfortable truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.
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Samanta Schweblin's Seven Empty Houses is praised for its noirish and sinister themes, combining eeriness with subtle violence, as noted by the Sunday Telegraph. The Financial Times highlights Schweblin's genius for conveying something savage and ungovernable. Marie Claire describes the book as a dark but slyly humorous gem, supported by sharp observation. The Sunday Times characterises it as a unique fusion of surrealism and domestic drama, while the New York Times Book Review finds it darker and more terrifying than Fever Dream. Renowned for its unsettling quality, as per Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, the collection features stories that provoke and challenge perceptions, making compelling reading, according to the Guardian and the Observer.
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ISBN: 9780861546466
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 September 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Contributors:
- Translated by Megan McDowell
- Translated by Megan McDowell
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 208
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About the Author
Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel Fever Dream, a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, as well as the novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds, both longlisted for the same prize. Her work has won numerous other prestigious awards including the José Donoso Ibero-American Prize for Letters, 2022, and has been translated into thirty-five languages. Her writing has appeared in English in The New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin now lives in Berlin.
Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's and The Paris Review. She lives in Chile.
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