The release date for the English version of 'The Dangers of Smoking in Bed' by
Mariana Enríquez is Jan 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The "propulsive and mesmerising" (
New York Times Book Review
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Items Lost in the Flames
arrives a brand-new book of extraordinarily unnerving tales by an Argentine writer who has drawn similarities to Jorge Luis Borges and Shirley Jackson.
Mariana Enriquez's unique and politicised tales of the macabre have won her critical acclaim. They balance the uncomfortable line between urban reality and horror, with characters like hungry ladies, deceitful witches, and rowdy youngsters. Her next collection of tales pushes the taboo subjects of fetish, disease, the female body, and the evil side of human history into the forefront with a disturbing immediacy. They are both horrifying and socially aware. A lady develops a sexual obsession with the human heart; a decaying infant finds its way from a garden into a bedroom; two adolescent girls are unable to part from their hero; and a neighbourhood is doomed to death due to an ethical dilemma that they mishandle.
Enriquez is at her most brilliant and frightening in her new collection, which is written against the background of modern Argentina with a resounding sympathy for persons in agony, terror, and limbo. Enriquez is one of Argentina's most fascinating authors.