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Our Share of Night - A Novel
Mariana Enriquez; Translated by Megan McDowell; Illustrated by Pablo Gerardo Camacho
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'Beautiful,
horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for
some time' Kazuo Ishiguro 'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren Groff
Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted
imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and
unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous
intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories
shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving
voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and
darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge,
witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic
and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten
to lead us over the edge. 'There is some serious power in this
writing' Daisy Johnson
Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the
reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed
children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk
beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world
where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible
dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women,
exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out
lies in the flames...
Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may
have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a
powerful medium who canopen locked doors, commune with the dead,
and possess the ancient forces ofthe Darkness. Now father and son
are in flight, hunted by the Order, a group of wealthy acolytes who
seek to harness the Darkness, no matter the cost. Among
them,Gaspar's grandmother, whose twisted desires have already
driven her to commit unspeakable acts.Nothing will stop the Order,
nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors,can Gaspar and Juan
break free? Spanning the brutal years of Argentina's military
dictatorship and its turbulentaftermath, Our Share of Night is a
haunting, thrilling novel of broken families,cursed land,
inheritance, power, and the terrible sacrifices a father will
maketo help his son escape his destiny. 'A singular, soul-rattling
novel...I've never read anything like it' - Jessamine Chan, New
York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers 'A
novel so disquieting, so unsettling I could neither put it down,
nor read it late at night.' - Kelly Link, author of White Cat,
Black Dog and Get in Trouble
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