Creators: Mixed Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents. In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.
DislikedI felt like I kept finishing the stories and just feeling a little blah about them. Having some theories about what the author was trying to get at with the stories, but just feeling like they were too short and too vague in most cases to really spark a lot of thoughtful reflection or to really stick with me.
LovedI technically did that technically I read a like a two-hour audio book of a marami Nolla called The Strange Library which was really crazy for such a short book it was unhinged and I really enjoyed it but like I don't know that really counts that I read marami because I haven't really read a full- length novel by him but because I like that Noella so much my hope is that I can read some morakami some real morakami especially because it's translated and as far as samanta goes samanta Sam I don't know which one it is samanta schweblin I read a short story collection by her that I really loved called seven empty houses and it was super great it was very compelling I loved her writing I want to read more of her but I haven't really read like a novel by her and specifically some of her like bigger works like fever dream and there's another one I think called like little eyes maybe she has a couple of novels that I would like to read and I just want to read more of her stuff because she seems like a wonderful deranged person and I think we'd get along well those two were on my list last year and they are also on my list
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