{"product_id":"things-we-lost-in-the-fire","title":"Things We Lost in the Fire","description":"Review\n\n'Bright with brilliance... The stories [create] a sensibility as distinctive as that found in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. They are a portrait of a world in fragments, a mirrorball made of razor blades'--Guardian\n\n'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror ... you [will] return home looking pale and haunted' --Guardian 'Best Summer Reads'\n\n'The only book that s ever left me afraid to turn out the lights... mercilessly incisive and deeply creepy'' -- --Irish Times'\n\n'Slim but phenomenal... The spookiness of these 12 stories sets into the reader's mind like a jet stone, sparkling through all that darkness'--Vanity Fair\n\n'Fiction doesn't get much better than this'--John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Let the Right One In\n\n'Teeming with death, sex and the macabre, this short-story collection by one of Argentina's rising literary talents might best be described as Buenos Aires gothic' ----Best Summer Books, Financial Times\n\n'Propulsive and mesmerising... I will be haunted for some time by this book'--New York Times Book Review\n\n'Enríquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read... her fiction hits with the force of a freight train'--Dave Eggers, author of The Circle\n\n'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror ... you [will] return home looking pale and haunted' ----Best Summer Reads, Guardian\n\nProduct Description\n\nThrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies in the flames...\n\nBook Description\n\nInternationally acclaimed, wildly imaginative, dark and haunting - these South American gothic tales paint a vivid picture of contemporary Argentina\n\nAbout the Author\n\nMariana Enriquez is a novelist, journalist and short story writer from Argentina. She has published two novels, a collection of short stories as well as a collection of travel writings, Chicos que vuelven, and a novella. She is an editor at Pagina\/12, a newspaper based in Buenos Aires. Megan McDowell is a Spanish language translator. She has translated books by Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Gonzalo Torne, Lina Meruane, Carlos Busqued, and Mariana Enriquez. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the ParisReview, Harper's, TinHouse, and McSweeney's. She lives in Chile.","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40375768645717,"sku":"9781846276361N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/861fdd44-69cd-449b-89c1-6e357aa3e74a.jpg?v=1665489053","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/things-we-lost-in-the-fire","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}