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S'està carregant… The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (edició 2022)de Mariana Enriquez (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories de Mariana Enriquez
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 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. (  ) ElegantMechanic | May 28, 2022 |  Argentine writer Marianne Enriquez has a deft hand with these noir stories, consisting of some horror, and some of a more paranormal bent. One of my favorites involved street kids believed to have been killed, returning in droves as if from the dead. Enriquez has a way of building tension and then ending the story just as the horror is set to begin. It’s an effective technique, but as almost every story follows this pattern, I personally would have enjoyed some stories using a different arc. (  ) streamsong | Apr 23, 2022 | So this was a wonderful surprise. I've liked the translator, Megan McDowell's choices of books to translate in the past and when this one showed up on the shortlist for the International Booker Prize, I thought it looked interesting enough, and boy, was it. This is a collection of horror short stories that are thought-provoking and odd. In the opening story, a woman is haunted by a decomposing baby, which pretty much sets the tone for the book. If you are a fan of Samanta Schweblin, were an emo kid, or just like weird and off-beat stories, then you'll love this. (  ) RidgewayGirl | Jun 6, 2021 | i didn't love the first half but enjoyed the second half more, particularly "no birthdays or baptisms" and "kids who come back" as a highlight- creepypasta meets cute horror. ( ) boredgames | May 28, 2021 | Disturbing Shorts Review of the Hogarth Press hardcover edition (2021) translated from the Spanish language original "Los peligros de fumar en la cama" (2009) When I say "disturbing", I mean more along the lines of repulsive, icky and gross, rather than haunting, mystifying and mesmerizing. I had especially enjoyed Enriquez first English language translation "Things We Lost in the Fire" (2016/2017), especially for its Lovecraftian allusions and endings. This latest collection is translated from an earlier 2009 work and seems too often to go for gross-out effects such as defecation to shock the reader. I did find the novella-length story Kids Who Came Back to be the best work in the collection, with the horror of its en masse The Monkey's Paw-like returns of the disappeared children of Buenos Aires. That one was haunting, atmospheric and effective, though still disturbing. The rest were entirely forgettable for me. This is surprisingly on the shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2021. I haven't read any of the others, but would still be shocked if one them didn't win over this one. (  ) alanteder | Apr 26, 2021 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * "The lauded Argentine author of What We Lost in the Fire returns with enthralling stories conjured from literary sorcery" (O: The Oprah Magazine), in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * "Mariana Enriquez's stories are smoky, carnal, and dazzling."--Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and Fates and Furies 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 sophisticated, and most chilling. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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