Seven Empty Houses Samanta Schweblin Megan Mcdowell Translation by Samanta Schweblin, Megan Mcdowell (translation) 9780525541417, 0525541411 instant download after payment.

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, "lead[ing] 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 inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents.   

In each story, twists & turns will unnerve & surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path & 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.

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Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel Fever Dream, a finalist for the International Booker Prize, & the novel Little Eyes & story collection A Mouthful of Birds, longlisted for the same prize. Chosen by Granta as one of the twenty-two best writers in Spanish under the age of thirty-five, she has won numerous prestigious awards around the world. Her books have been translated into thirty-five languages, & her work has appeared in English in The New Yorker & Harper’s Magazine. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin.   

Megan McDowell is the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters & has been short- or longlisted four times for the International Booker Prize. She lives in Santiago, Chile.