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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories
Mariana Enríquez
Synopsis "The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories"
"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time."--Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews 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 new 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 bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.
Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es periodista, subeditora del suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 y docente. Desde su incorporación al catálogo en el año 2016, Anagrama ha publicado las novelasBajar es lo peor y Nuestra parte de noche (Premio Herralde de Novela y Premio de la Crítica 2019); las colecciones de cuentos Los peligros de fumar en la cama y Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, publicada en veinte países y galardonada en 2017 con el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona en la categoría «Literatura en lengua castellana»; el perfil La hermana menor, acerca de la escritora Silvina Ocampo; las crónicas de Alguien camina sobre tu tumba y sus crónicas periodísticas reunidas en El otro lado. Retratos, fetichismos, confesiones (Edición de Leila Guerriero).
