Mariana Enriquez
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Un calor que no da tregua. Una noche cuya oscuridad se alarga. La adolescencia y su rebeldía y las primeras experiencias.
"No había mucho más que hacer ese verano", leemos. A partir de ahí, una enorme historia que se abre a tantas posibilidades como lecturas: crisis y memoria de una dictadura, incógnitas e inquietudes, desencanto y búsqueda. Personajes que se ahogan y dudan. Asesinos en serie, lo siniestro y la enfermedad. Música y consecuencias.
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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
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"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...
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VINTAGE ESPAÑOL
Pub. Date
2017
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Español
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El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas mujeres ardientes, que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica...
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Hogarth
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[2024]
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English
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"On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed-all those birds were once women. Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural....