Mariana Enriquez

Farene ved å røyke på senga tar oss med til et Buenos Aires der marerittene aldri tar slutt. En død baby sleper seg ut av graven sin, en kvinne blir seksuelt opphisset av hjerteslag, en jentegjeng kaster stygge forbannelser, et helt nabolag går til grunne fordi de fortjener det, og en hær av savnede gatebarn inntar plutselig byen. Novellene i denne boka er uhyggelige, mørke og fornøyelige. De handler om empati og moral, om medmenneskelighet og umenneskelighet. Med et forfriskende blikk på tilværelsen skaper Mariana Enriquez nok en gang et litterært univers som stiller spørsmål med alt vi vet og alt vi aldri kan få vite.

”Mosaiikkikuva maailmasta, partateristä koottu peilipallo.” The GuardianOmaääninen, aikamme idolien suosittelema kiihkeä tarinakokoelma Buenos Airesin sydämen sykkeestä. Naisia, jotka sytyttävät itsensä tuleen protestina lähisuhdeväkivaltaa vastaan. Pohjoisargentiinalaista taikauskoa. ”Likaisen sodan” aikaisia katoamistapauksia. Särkyneitä sydämiä, ihastuksia ja myötätuntoa. Mitä liekit meiltä veivät on poliittisen historian ja pop-kulttuurin läpitunkemaa sukupolvikirjallisuutta. Väkevät, trillerimäiset tarinat jäävät kummittelemaan lukijansa mieleen pitkäksi aikaa. Mariana Enriquez (s. 1973 Buenos Airesissa) on journalisti ja kirjailija, joka kirjoitti esikoisromaaninsa teini-ikäisenä ja nauttii kulttimainetta ympäri maailmaa. Mitä liekit meiltä veivät on myyty 25 maahan ja se oli bestseller espanjankielisessä maailmassa. Enriquez on voittanut Premio Ciutat de Barcelona, Premio Herralde ja Premio Estado Crítico -palkinnot. Hänen tuotantoonsa kuuluu novelleja, romaaneja ja asiaproosaa, muun muassa matkaopas maailman hautausmaille. Häntä on nimitetty mm. “goottilaiseksi realismin kuningattareksi”.

”Lumoavia, kirjanoituuden loihtimia tarinoita.” – The Oprah MagazineLatinalaisen Amerikan kuumimman kulttikirjailijan novellikokoelma tanssii kepein askelin yhteiskunnallisen kirjallisuuden ja kauhun rajavyöhykkeellä. Tarinoissa uhrataan pahoille pyhimyksille, kiihotutaan sydänten sykkeestä, palvotaan rokkareita (kirjaimellisesti!), puhutaan sotilasjuntan murhaamille spiritismilaudan avulla. Buenos Airesin katujen svengi yhdistyy pohjoisargentiinalaiseen mustaan magiaan ja maan väkivaltaiseen poliittiseen historiaan, poppiin, hulluuteen ja verentahrimaan glitteriin. Mariana Enriquez (s. 1973 Buenos Airesissa, Argentiinassa) on journalisti ja kirjailija, joka kirjoitti esikoisromaaninsa teini-ikäisenä ja nauttii kulttimainetta ympäri maailmaa. Enriquez on voittanut mm. Premio Ciutat de Barcelona ja Premio Herralde -palkinnot ja ollut ehdolla Booker-palkinnon saajaksi. Hänen tuotantoonsa kuuluu novelleja (Mitä liekit meiltä veivät, WSOY 2021) romaaneja (Yö kuuluu meille, WSOY 2022) ja asiaproosaa, muun muassa matkaopas maailman hautausmaille.” Mariana Enriquezin fiktion yllä leijailee 1900-luvun lopun latinalaisen Amerikan historian aave. Eläväisen proosan ansiosta vierailu hänen maailmassaan on nautinto.” – New York Review of Books”Tarinat hengistä ja katoamisista käsittelevät menetyksen mysteeriä; niiden kerronta on yhtä mukaansatempaavaa kuin kauhistuttavaakin.” – Chicago Review of Books”Sängyssä tupakoimisen vaarat vakiinnuttaa Enriquezin aseman johtavana äänenä kirjallisuuskentällä. Enriquezin poikkeuksellinen – ja poikkeuksellisen pahaenteinen – proosa pitelee peiliä hämmentävän aikakautemme edessä.” – The Oprah Magazine”Salakavalan mukaansatempaava, kuin juoksuhiekkaa.” – Kirkus Reviews”Enriquezin laaja mielikuvitus ja sudennälkä kauhuskenaarioihin kurkottavat usein subliimeihin korkeuksiin.” – Publishers Weekly

The "propulsive and mesmerizing" (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night--now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: "The most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time."--Kazuo Ishiguro"Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken."--The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year) Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation's troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, superstitions, lost loves and regrets, there is also friendship, compassion, and humor. Translated by the National Book Award-winning Megan McDowell, these "slim but phenomenal" (Vanity Fair) stories ask the biggest questions of life and show why Mariana Enriquez has become one of the most celebrated new voices in global literature.

"A masterpiece of supernatural horror."--The Washington Post"An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience."--The New York Times (Editors' Choice) ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC'S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR - LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK One of Reactor Magazine's Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed--"the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time" (Kazuo Ishiguro). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Book Riot, PopSugar, The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, Tordotcom, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Commonweal, CrimeReads "A magnificent accomplishment."--Alan Moore, author of Watchmen "A masterpiece of literary horror."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "One of Latin America's most exciting authors."--Silvia Moreno-Garcia A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality. For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar's father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate? Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina's military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America's most original novelists, "a mesmerizing writer," says Dave Eggers, "who demands to be read."

Smukke og grusomme fortællinger fra en af vor tids største og mest dristige latinamerikanske forfattere. Shortlistet til Booker-prisen. Velkommen til Buenos Aires, hvor forsvundne børn vender tilbage fra de døde og opgravede knogler bærer på frygtelige forbandelser. I disse fortællinger fra det moderne Argentina giver forfatteren stemme til kvinderne – de udstødte, de undertrykte og de glemte – i en storby gennemsyret af vold og vanvid. Fortællingerne er befolket af uregerlige teenagere, mystiske hekse, hjemløse spøgelser og udsultede kvinder og formår på original vis at forene klassisk horror, feminisme og moderne samfundskritik med stor skønhed og underfundig humor. Mariana Enriquez (f. 1973) er kritiker, journalist og forfatter, regnes for en af Argentinas største nulevende forfattere og en moderne arvtager til Julio Cortázar og Jorge Luis Borges. Hun debuterede 21-årig i 1994 og har siden udgivet adskillige romaner og novellesamlinger. Hun fik et stort internationalt gennembrud med den anmelderroste novellesamling Ting vi mistede i ilden (da. 2017), og hendes seneste store romanværk Nuestra parte de noche blev belønnet med den prestigefulde Herralde-pris, den største litterære pris i den spansktalende verden, og blev en romanen indtil videre udkommet i 24 oplag. Anmelderne skrev: »Dronningen af Latinamerikansk goth.« Financial Times »Som sin chilenske nabo, afdøde Roberto Bolaño, skriver Mariana Enriquez om de mørkeste afkroge af menneskesindet, men med en præcision og en poesi, som efterlader læseren forunderligt opløftet.« The A. V. Club

A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve - from cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Kusinerna är en berättelse om en märklig familj i den argentinska staden La Plata på 1940-talet. I romanen är männen i stort sett frånvarande och istället möter vi fyra flickor som alla lider av antingen kognitiva eller motoriska svårigheter. Berättarjaget Yuna har språkstörningar. Lillasystern Betina har ännu grövre tal- och rörelsesvårigheter. Kusinen Carina föddes med sex tår. Kusinen Petra är "dvärginna". Trots försöken hos de fyra kusinerna att leva ett liv så nära normen som möjligt präglas deras historia av olyckor, våldtäkter, oönskade graviditeter, våldsamma separationer, prostitution och mord. Berättarjaget påstår att hennes historia är en smutsig tragikomedi, men här finns även ljusglimtar: Yuna är målarinna och en dag blir hon en berömd och erkänd konstnär. Kusinerna vann Premio de Nueva Novela utlyst av dagstidningen Página/12 år 2007 med motiveringen: en unik, extrem, förvirrande originalitet som tvingar läsaren att ställa många av de frågor som böcker vanligtvis ignorerar eller aktsamt tiger om.

En far og hans sønn – Juan og Gaspar – reiser gjennom Argentina i bil. De er på vei til guttens besteforeldre, mektige landeiere og medlemmer av Ordenen, et hemmelig selskap som utfører bestialske ritualer i en søken etter evig liv. Juan har i årevis vært brukt som medium for selskapet, og nå står sønnen for tur. Farens mål med reisen er å beskytte sønnen Gaspar fra den groteske skjebnen som venter ham. Dette foregår i militærjuntaens tid; væpnede soldater kontrollerer veiene, og farer truer overalt. Gaspars mor har nylig dødd under uklare omstendigheter, i det som kanskje ikke var en ulykke, men et rituelt drap. Vår del av natten er en grensesprengende roman, en gotisk roadtrip og et sterkt familiedrama. I sin umiskjennelig burleske stil blander Enriquez overnaturlig skrekk med virkelighetsnære hendelser. Slik får hun sagt både noe om det argentinske politiske landskapet og om alt det vi ikke kan vite noe om. Med denne romanen plasserer Enriquez seg trygt blant 2000-tallets fremste søramerikanske forfattere.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'Beautiful, horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time' Kazuo Ishiguro 'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren Groff Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge. 'I loved these twisted, lustful whispers in the dark' Daisy Johnson 'Queen of Latin American gothic' Financial Times

"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 sophisticated, and most chilling.

RECOMENDADO EN EL ART CULO DEL THE NEW YORK TIMES FIVE NEW PAPERBACKS TO READ THIS WEEK. El legado, el deseo de vivir, la paternidad, el horror, lo ntimo y lo pol tico. El terror sobrenatural se entrelaza con terrores muy reales en esta osada y perturbadora novela. Incluido en los libros de ficci n notables del New York Times de 2023 Un padre y su hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguaz , en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los a os de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensi n en el ambiente. El padre de Gaspar trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado despu s de que su madre muriese en circunstancias poco claras; en un accidente que acaso no lo fue. Como su padre, Gaspar est llamado a ser un m dium en una sociedad secreta, la Orden, que contacta con la Oscuridad en busca de la vida eterna mediante atroces rituales. Para ellos es vital disponer de un m dium, pero el destino de estos seres dotados de poderes especiales es cruel, y el desgaste f sico y mental es r pido e implacable. Los or genes de la Orden, regida por la poderosa familia de la madre de Gaspar, se remontan a siglos atr s, cuando el conocimiento de la Oscuridad lleg desde el coraz n de frica a Inglaterra y desde all se extendi hasta Argentina. El lector emprender un viaje entre la represi n de la dictadura militar argentina y el Londres psicod lico de los a os sesenta, donde la madre de Gaspar conoci a un joven cantante de aire andr gino llamado David; descubrir casas cuyo interior muta, pasadizos que esconden monstruos inimaginables, rituales con fieros sacrificios humanos, enigm ticas liturgias sexuales y la carga de una herencia atroz. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "A masterpiece of supernatural horror."--The Washington Post "An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience."--The New York Times (Editors' Choice) GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK - ONE OF ESQUIRE'S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF 2023 (SO FAR) - A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed--"the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time" (Kazuo Ishiguro). ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The New York Times, Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Elle, Electric Lit, Book Riot, BookPage, The Rumpus, World Literature Today, Tordotcom, CrimeReads, Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly RECOMMENDED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES IN "FIVE NEW PAPERBACKS TO READ THIS WEEK". "A magnificent accomplishment."--Alan Moore, author of Watchmen "A masterpiece of literary horror."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One of Latin America's most exciting authors."--Silvia Moreno-Garcia Listed as one of The New York Times' Notable Fiction Books of 2023 A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality. For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar's father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate? Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina's military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America's most original novelists, "a mesmerizing writer," says Dave Eggers, "who demands to be read."

The debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night. 'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror... You [will] return home looking pale and haunted' Observer Sleep-deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp-toothed children and stolen skulls; persecuted young women drawn to self-immolation. Organized crime sits side-by-side with the occult in Buenos Aires - a place where reality and the supernatural fuse into strange, new shapes. These acclaimed gothic tales follow the wayward and downtrodden, revealing the scars of Argentina's dictatorship and the ghosts and traumas that have settled in the minds of its people. Provocative, brutal and uncanny, Things We Lost in the Fire is contemporary gothic at its darkest and best. 'The only book that's ever left me afraid to turn out the lights... mercilessly incisive and deeply creepy' Irish Times 'Books of the Year' 'These spookily clear-eyed, elementally intense stories are the business' Helen Oyeyemi