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But the point of these suggested apparitions is to emphasize the horror of some aspects of contemporary Argentinian life -- extreme poverty, violence, drug addiction and crime… These are the things we lost in the fire, fire, fire.

I shudder. They worm their way into you and leave a significant impression. The stories really are all over the place. 045149511X I thought all short story collections were required by law to include at least one piece of shit. "Things We Lost in the Fire" has it all. Straight to your inbox. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. These grisly tales will surely haunt your dreams like they did mine - scenes full of grotesque, unstable characters where misfortune can strike at any moment.A small piece of advice: don't read this book before going to bed. In these stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortázar, three young friends distract themselves with drugs and pain in the midst a government-enforced blackout; a girl with nothing to lose steps into an abandoned house and never comes back out; to protest a viral form of domestic violence, a group of women set themselves on fire. Nothing life changing so take it or leave it, but I did enjoy picking this up periodically for a new tale of Argentine horror.Remind me never to go to Buenos Aires without thinking of this book. Well add one more to the... no I won’t use a bad pun. Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories Mariana Enriquez Limited preview - 2017. Many of these stories exemplify what good horror stories are supposed to do. This book of short stories feels very real, about poverty and children navigating the dangerous urban environments of Argentina, and then suddenly there are things that are unexplained. Some stories outshine others, but they are all engaging and unsettling.

[So what happened to the husband in "Spiderweb"? Things We Lost in the Fire Mariana Enríquez Hogarth. Indeed, Enríquez places herself in the tradition of Borges and Cortázar, for whom fantastic themes did not obscure the material reality of Latin American people – in Argentina’s case, two bloody military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, with tens of thousands ‘disappeared’.However, this volume does more than simply put a supernatural spin on all-too-real history: in exploring the psychic traces of this historical trauma, Enriquez hits upon painfully contemporary themes that will resonate far from the Enríquez’s characters are compellingly complex, eschewing essentialist notions of female goodness to reveal women who are disconcerting, off-putting, or fully reprehensible. But they're told with a sympathetic voice in an engaging translaBeautifully bleak, eerie. Did the trucker do something to him, or the cousin, or both? Some of the descriptions within these stories brought to mind Stephen King’s writing, particularly “Adela’s House.” Certain descriptions of graffiti in repetitive patterns of letters that don’t seem to spell anything and the creature with teeth filed into triangles that eats Paula’s live cat in “The Neighbor’s Courtyard” are two other particular examples that felt Stephen King-esque to me.I picked this up and read it through for a second time while waiting for I picked this up and read it through for a second time while waiting for Definitely unique, this macabre collection of stories has a flavor to it that can't be denied. the people we love do things that irritate us, sure, but we need to let it go at some point. Straight to your inbox. There are ghosts of the past, horrific creatures, and a sense of the clairvoyance in these pages. I enjoyed all 12 of these. I think adela's house is my favorite. Yikes! Spectacular dark fiction short stories. I don't think it makes sense to try to figure out what really happened. Now I anxiously await for more of her books to be translated.I love short stories and am always amazed when they are done exceptionally well. Author, journalist, public intellectual, and (in recent years) comic book writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates is an Extremely Busy Person by any metric, and...In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and legions of desaparecidos loom large in the collective memory. I mean what happened to the girl who was eaten by the haunted house? Quite a sharp edge in these stories and she has a lot to say about women, girls trying to be in the world, the confines of bad marriages, the ravages of poverty and addiction.

Great dark fiction.

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