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Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist leading a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21stcentury canonO 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 Schweblins tense visionary tales something always creeps back inside a ghost a fight trespassers a list of things to do before you die a childs first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents

In each story twists and turns will unnerve and surprise Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin revealing surreal 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

Cover art Detail of Le modele vivant by Ren Magritte 1953 / 2022 C Herscovici / Artists Rights Society ARS New York
Photo Christies Images / Bridgeman Images