A Sunny Place for Shady People

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Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.

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Superb... a collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form... It is Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life... Unsettling * Observer *
At her best, Enriquez has an unrivalled instinct for the subtly appalling image, a Lynchian (David, not Paul) sense of how horror inheres within the benign... Enriquez... is pretty much unbeatable * Guardian *
This collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the [horror] genre to an entirely new level... enticing... deeply unsettling, darkly humorous and, like all good horror movies and books, you can't look away - even for a second * NB magazine *
Superb... A collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world... A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best -- Paul Tremblay
Seductively gothic... [Enriquez] is at the height of her powers... at her fiercest, she sets down morbid manifestations of misogyny and female desire, rooted by a scythe-sharp, bone-dry humour... this might be her most untrammelled-and certainly her most unwavering-collection yet * Prospect magazine *
One of Latin America's most exciting authors -- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Enriquez's short stories had already made me a fan for life -- Kelly Link
In Enriquez's fiction, blood isn't spattered off screen. It's splurged all over the picture -- Adam Thirlwell
A mesmerising writer who demands to be read... Her fiction hits with the force of a freight train -- Dave Eggers
Bleak and often brutal horror * SFX magazine *
Terse and graphic ... an engaging view of inter-generational trauma and what happens to pain after death * PA Media (syndicated review) *
At their best these stories superimpose supernational tension on ungovernable emotions * Daily Mail *
Skin-crawling unease and psychological discomfort... striking... it offers a weighty read about the shadows that haunt humanity * Straits Times *

Author Bio

MARIANA ENRIQUEZ is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, and Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.

MEGAN MCDOWELL has translated Alejandro Zambra and Samanta Schweblin, among other writers. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.