Enriquez has published the novels: Bajar es lo peor (Espasa Calpe, 1995), Cmo desaparecer completamente (Emec, 2004) and Nuestra parte de noche (Anagrama, 2019). [2] Parts of her family hail from North-Eastern Argentina (Corrientes and Misiones) and Paraguay. So I guess my answer is that to create that darkness, you have to create a convincing light, for the contrast. One of her short story collections received its English translation in January. He paid attention to us for a while, until Silvia started chatting him up. He still kept closer to Silvia and he still seemed fascinated by her, even if by then hed realized that we were much, much prettier. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. LITERARY FICTION | She was our grownup friend, the one who took care of us when we went out and let us use her place to smoke weed and meet up with boys. There are enough traumas here to fall an average-sized mental ward, but the biggie centers around Luke, who uses the skills learned as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam to fight a guerrilla war against the installation of a nuclear power plant in Colleton and is killed by the authorities. Once, the bus driver said something strange to us: that we should watch out for wild dogs on the loose. Max Rozenfeld has spent much of the war imagining how the destruction of Kharkiv presents opportunities for reinventing its future. When I was writing this particular story, I remember that I was in a phase of reading and rereading Ian McEwan, and the novel Black Dogs struck a chord. The dog bit the mouth of its ownersomeone I knewand ate her lips. Her American influences range from filmmaker Gus Van Sants My Own Private Idaho to Iggy Pop's music to Anne Rice's vampire oeuvre. Mariana Enriquez on Teen-Age Desire. Silvia hated public pools and country-club pools, even the pools at estates or weekend houses; she said the water wasnt fresh, it always felt stagnant to her. To date, two are available in English translation. All Rights Reserved. Enrquez, a journalist who grew up in Buenos Aires during Argentina's Dirty Wara trauma that echoes across these storiesis a pioneer of Argentinian horror and Spanish-language weird fiction, warping familiar settings (city parks, an office building, a stretch of neighborhood street) by wefting in the uncanny, supernatural, or monstrously human. hardcover. She wanted him to want her, to like her, she wanted to drive him crazy. Diego hadnt travelled much, but he wanted to go backpacking in the north that year. You are going through a metamorphosis: its a very mythological time. Perfect for a picnic with a stick of freshly baked bread. Magazine Subscribers (How to Find Your Reader Number), International Booker Prize Longlist Is Revealed, Shortlist for International Booker Prize Revealed, There Are the 2021 Kirkus Prize Fiction Finalists, Nan A. Talese, Legendary Publisher, Is Retiring, Worth the Wait: New Fiction From 6 Favorites, Hang the Moon Will Be Adapted for TV Series.

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