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A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
“Horror has found its master.”—Joy Williams
“A collection of brilliant nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay
“First-rate literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: Reactor, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub
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. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.
Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”
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"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
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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 -
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
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About Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires, where she contributes to a number of newspapers and literary journals, both fiction and nonfiction.
About the Narrators
Maria Liatis is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.
Suehyla El-Attar Young is an actress and writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She dabbled in radio for a bit, working with several well-known stations as a morning news personality and DJ. Eventually, she returned to acting, on stage and in film. She has nurtured both crafts of acting and writing, working with local companies such as Theatre du Reve, Synchronicity Theatre, the Alliance Theatre Company, and Horizon Theatre Company as dramaturge, actress, and playwright on several projects.
Pete Cross is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He holds a BA in theater from the University of Toledo and an MFA in acting from the California Institute of the Arts. His experience on stage includes Carnegie Hall, and he has also acted in film. He has served on the faculty at Cal Arts and with Aquila Morong Studio in Hollywood. He has coached for film and theatrical productions and continues to work with private clients all over the world.