Mixing the macabre with the everyday and dark magic with the all-too-real reverberations of Argentina's tumultous past, this hypnotic short fiction collection from the author of the International Booker nominated The Dangers of Smoking in Bed finds Enriquez at the height of her powers.
Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781803511238
Number of pages: 272
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
Superb... a collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars - Telegraph
Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form... It is Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life... Unsettling - Observer
At her best, Enriquez has an unrivalled instinct for the subtly appalling image, a Lynchian (David, not Paul) sense of how horror inheres within the benign... Enriquez... is pretty much unbeatable - Guardian
This collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the [horror] genre to an entirely new level... enticing... deeply unsettling, darkly humorous and, like all good horror movies and books, you can't look away - even for a second - NB magazine
Superb... A collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars - Telegraph
'A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world... A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best' - Paul Tremblay
Seductively gothic... [Enriquez] is at the height of her powers... at her fiercest, she sets down morbid manifestations of misogyny and female desire, rooted by a scythe-sharp, bone-dry humour... this might be her most untrammelled-and certainly her most unwavering-collection yet - Prospect magazine
'One of Latin America's most exciting authors' - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
'Enriquez's short stories had already made me a fan for life' - Kelly Link
'In Enriquez's fiction, blood isn't spattered off screen. It's splurged all over the picture' - Adam Thirlwell
'A mesmerising writer who demands to be read... Her fiction hits with the force of a freight train' - Dave Eggers
Bleak and often brutal horror - SFX magazine
Terse and graphic ... an engaging view of inter-generational trauma and what happens to pain after death - PA Media (syndicated review)
At their best these stories superimpose supernational tension on ungovernable emotions - Daily Mail
Skin-crawling unease and psychological discomfort... striking... it offers a weighty read about the shadows that haunt humanity - Straits Times
Lit horror short stories by South American authors is one of my favourite genres and I've enjoyed all of Mariana Enriquez previous collections. This one certainly didn't disappoint, I think it's her... More
I was so excited for more short stories from Mariana Enriquez and A Sunny Place for Shady People didn’t disappoint.
Expect the eerie, spine tingling, sense of dread you experienced in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed....
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A compelling collection of short stories that pull you into a world where darkness lurks just beneath the surface. Fans of subtle horror should enjoy this, but I wish the stories packed more of a punch in the... More
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