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Bezig met laden... The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories (origineel 2017; editie 2021)door Mariana Enriquez (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This collection of short stories is not for the faint of heart. The stories start in the vein of South American magical realism, but as they progress, the author mixes folklore with horror, sometimes with disturbing scenes that the reader will have a hard time forgetting. Interestingly, in several of the stories the author treats depression, anxiety and other mental conditions as horrors, not merely diseases, but spooky horrors. Lovers of paranormal stories will be delighted, but impressionable readers must be warned. An uneven collection with hits and misses. When it hits, it hits hard but there's also weaker efforts that let it down (the last two tales including the titular one made for a weak finish). There's also only so many samey ghost stories you can read before it all blurs into one but I'll allow that might have been an intended effect, creating an alternate Argentina where these creepy things all coexist. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:??The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I??ve made in fiction for some time.???Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ? NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS?? CHOICE ? FINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize ? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, New York Public Library, Electric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken??fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history??with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can??t let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is Mariana Enriquez at her most Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is Enriquez's second collection published/translated into English, but was written prior to TWLitF. I didn't realize that at first, but was glad to discover it simply because while I enjoyed most of these stories, they didn't live up to the memory of what I'd experienced in her work before. It's possible this book suffered some from me reading through all of the stories quickly, vs pacing them out, as the themes/devices got to feeling repetitive after a while, but I suspect it's simply that Enriquez grew as a writer between this, her first collection, and her second one.
I'd still recommend this one, particularly to writers new to her work, but it's her other collection that I really loved. Obviously, I'll remain on the lookout for more of her work. ( )