A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories Audiobook

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• More trademark Enriquez stories combining the macabre with explorations of womanhood, parenthood and the lasting legacy of Argentina’s military dictatorships.

  — Lit Hub

• More trademark Enriquez stories combining the macabre with explorations of womanhood, parenthood and the lasting legacy of Argentina’s military dictatorships.

  — Lit Hub

• Horror’s found its master.

  — Joy Williams

• The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.

  — Kazuo Ishiguro

• Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read.

  — Dave Eggers

• One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.

  — Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic

• Mariana Enriquez is a visionary.

  — Jennifer Haigh, author of Mercy Street

• Mariana Enriquez is a masterful world-builder.

  — Sergio de la Pava, author of A Naked Singularity

• More trademark Enriquez stories combining the macabre with explorations of womanhood, parenthood and the lasting legacy of Argentina’s military dictatorships.

  — Lit Hub

• Vivid and unnerving, these stories confirm Enriquez as one of Latin America’s most original imaginations.

  — The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice

• Enriquez’s collection of horror stories illuminates the dark side of contemporary Buenos Aires.

  — Publishers Weekly

• Horror has found its master.

  — Joy Williams

• Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read.

  — Dave Eggers

• When I read Mariana Enríquez’s stories, I forget where I am. I miss my subway stop. I hold my breath. Her fiction is that pulse-racingly superb, that electric and original.

  — Laura van den Berg

• Mariana Enriquez is a visionary.

  — Jennifer Haigh

• Enriquez’s particular gift is to intuit that horror and ghost stories­—ancient genres, as old as humanity itself­—might make better gateways into a country’s past than straightforward narrative.

  — Financial Times

• Vivid and unnerving, these stories confirm Enriquez as one of Latin America’s most original imaginations.

  — The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice

• A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world. Enriquez’s characters’ desperate, longing struggle for meaning and hope has never been so poignant and beautiful, nor so damned chilling. A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best.

  — Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Cabin at the End of the World

• When you gaze into the abyss, Mariana Enriquez looks up to you from those depths, grins to herself, and then gives her attention back to the next story she’s pulling into the world.

  — Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is a Chainsaw

• More trademark Enriquez stories combining the macabre with explorations of womanhood, parenthood and the lasting legacy of Argentina’s military dictatorships.

  — Lit Hub

• Vivid and unnerving, these stories confirm Enriquez as one of Latin America’s most original imaginations.

  — The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice

• A masterful collection . . . these provocative tales are first-rate literary horror.

  — Publishers Weekly, starred review

• Nobody does horror quite like Enriquez, whose stories linger at the edges of your consciousness long after they’ve ended—perhaps because of how she always keeps her focus on the human heart of her tales.

  — LitHub

• Nobody does horror quite like Enriquez, whose stories linger at the edges of your consciousness long after they’ve ended—perhaps because of how she always keeps her focus on the human heart of her tales.

  — Literary Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024

• Readers blown away by Enriquez’s Our Share of Night will welcome McDowell's bravura translation of the author’s new collection of horror stories . . . Enriquez’s darkly humorous world view throbs throughout these weird and riveting tales, exerting the morbid fascination of a train wreck . . . [these stories] are creepy enough to bring a shiver to every reader.

  — Booklist, starred review

• Enriquez’s Our Share of Night earned her a prominent place among innovative South American writers, and the stories here deliver the same squelchy charms . . . [in] a dozen pitch-black Argentinean stories laced with body horror, self-incrimination, and existential dread. . . .[A Sunny Place for Shady People] solidifies Enríquez’s reputation as a purveyor of haunting and thought-provoking tales.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Readers blown away by Enriquez’s Our Share of Night will welcome McDowell’s bravura translation of the author’s new collection of horror stories. Enriquez’s darkly humorous world view throbs throughout these weird and riveting tales, exerting the morbid fascination of a train wreck. . . . [These stories] are creepy enough to bring a shiver to every reader.

  — Booklist, starred review

• Enriquez’s Our Share of Night earned her a prominent place among innovative South American writers, and the stories here deliver the same squelchy charms. . . . A dozen pitch-black Argentinean stories laced with body horror, self-incrimination, and existential dread . . . solidifies Enríquez’s reputation as a purveyor of haunting and thought-provoking tales.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Across 12 unnerving tales, which have been translated by Megan McDowell, the best-selling Argentine author and journalist writes of perimenopausal body horror, Kafkaesque transformations, and a town overrun by ghosts.

  — TIME

• [Enriquez] established herself as one of the most compelling and important voices in modern literary horror. Now . . . she’s back with a collection of 12 stories showcasing her singular approach to dark tales.

  — Paste Magazine

• Enriquez is Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror.

  — The New York Times

• Enriquez’s writing is mesmerizing and beautiful, yet it also worms its way inside of you and sets the seeds for a haunting that you will be thinking about for long after you’ve finished reading . . . Another can’t-miss Halloween-time read.

  — Chicago Review of Books

• Enriquez has made a name for herself blending supernatural horrors (ghosts, haunted houses, witches, that sort of thing) with the concrete horrors of everyday life in Argentina. Her last novel was a nearly 600-page tome, but this newest one is a collection of shorts—like a pillowcase full of trick-or-treat candies.

  — NPR

• Enriquez’s darkly humorous world view throbs throughout these weird and riveting tales, exerting the morbid fascination of a train wreck. . . . [These stories] are creepy enough to bring a shiver to every reader.

  — Booklist, starred review

• A dozen pitch-black Argentinean stories laced with body horror, self-incrimination, and existential dread . . . solidifies Enríquez’s reputation as a purveyor of haunting and thought-provoking tales.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• A Sunny Place for Shady People feels as vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales. Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enriquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.

  — Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• A Sunny Place for Shady People feels as vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales. Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enriquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.

  — Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Across 12 unnerving tales, which have been translated by Megan McDowell, the bestselling Argentine author and journalist writes of perimenopausal body horror, Kafkaesque transformations, and a town overrun by ghosts.

  — Time

• A Sunny Place for Shady People delivers another striking performance. . . . Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors. . . . [Enriquez is the] queen of horror.

  — Los Angeles Times

• Horror that illuminates humanity’s true monsters . . . Enriquez indicts our worst offensives in twelve haunting new stories.

  — The New York Times Book Review

• A Sunny Place for Shady People delivers another striking performance. . . . Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors. . . . A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.

  — Los Angeles Times

• Nobody does horror quite like Enriquez, whose stories linger at the edges of your consciousness long after they’ve ended—perhaps because of how she always keeps her focus on the human heart of her tales.

  — Literary Hub

• One hell of a read . . . The collection is poignant, seething, and hypnotic—taking the reader down a dark corridor—with seductive prose luring us to the end of a pitch-black hallway with no escape. . . . Megan McDowell’s translation hits such elevated emotional registers that the prose sings on the page.

  — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enriquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.

  — Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune

• A Sunny Place for Shady People delivers another striking performance. . . . mesmerizing.

  — Los Angeles Times

• One hell of a read . . . The collection is poignant, seething, and hypnotic—Megan McDowell’s translation hits such elevated emotional registers that the prose sings on the page.

  — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Enriquez demonstrates yet again why she’s an undisputed master of short horror.

  — Vulture

• Enriquez has made a name for herself blending supernatural horrors with the concrete horrors of everyday life in Argentina. This newest one is a collection of shorts—like a pillowcase full of trick-or-treat candies.

  — NPR

• [A] goddess of grotesque tales.

  — The Guardian

• Across 12 unnerving tales . . . the bestselling Argentine author and journalist writes of perimenopausal body horror, Kafkaesque transformations, and a town overrun by ghosts.

  — Time

• A must-read.

  — BookRiot

• Nobody does horror quite like Enriquez, whose stories linger at the edges of your consciousness long after they’ve ended.

  — Literary Hub

• This collection is perfect to read with all the lights in your apartment off except one, alone, alert to every noise, ensuring you’ll be unable to sleep after the last page is finished.

  — The Cut