Samanta Schweblin

I novellesamlingen Sju tomme hus utforsker Samanta Schweblin dagliglivets små og store fryktelige øyeblikk. Hun er skarp og presis og har en egen evne til å mane frem en ladet stemning. De som har lest hennes to romaner, Feberdrøm og Kentuki, vil kjenne igjen stilen. Hun skriver om det merkelige ved det normale, og det normale med det merkelige. Sju tomme hus fikk Ribera del Duero-prisen i 2015. Det er verdens største pris for noveller og deles ut annethvert år for beste novellesamling skrevet på spansk. «Vi ser på hus», sier hun. Hun blunker noen ganger, hun har for mye mascara på øyevippene. «Ser vi på hus?» «Vi ser på hus.» Hun peker på husene til alle kanter. De er gedigne. De står og skinner på høydene av frisk gressplen, strålende i det sterke ettermiddagslyset. Moren min sukker, og uten å slippe rattet lener hun seg bakover i setet. Hun kommer ikke til å si stort mer. Kanskje hun ikke vet hva mer hun kan si. Men det er akkurat dette vi driver med. Vi drar for å se på hus. Drar for å se på andres hus. Et forsøk på å fortolke det nå, kunne fort blitt dråpen som fikk glasset til å renne over, bekreftelsen på hvordan moren min har kastet tiden min i søpla så lenge jeg kan huske.»

Feberdrøm av Samantha Shweblin er en tett og marerittaktig fortelling, en psykologisk ladet kortroman om faren midt i hverdagen. Fra en av de friskeste stemmer i det spanske språkområdet og utgitt på norsk for første gang, skaper Samanta Schweblin en følelse av foruroligende psykologisk trussel og alternativ virkelighetsforståelse i denne forunderlig fengslende romanen. Den unge kvinnen Amanda ligger for døden på et lite sykehus på den argentinske landsbygden. Gutten David sitter ved hennes side. Hun er ikke moren hans. Han er ikke barnet hennes. Sammen skal de fortelle en fryktelig historie om fortapte sjeler, gift og kraften og desperasjonen i en famille i møte med det uforståelige. På kortlisten til The Man Booker International Prize 2017

I Kentuki blir vi introdusert for datakjæledyrstypen kentuki. En kentuki er et digitalt kjæledyr som styres av en annen person et annet, ukjent sted i verden. Kentukien kan kommunisere fordi vedkommende «i den andre enden» kan se eierens verden på sin skjerm og styre den. Eksempler på kommunikasjon kan være f.eks. være å lage lyder, peke på ting, utføre kjærtegn eller tegn på motstand. Når man kjøper seg en kentuki, vet man altså ikke hvem som «er inni den», det er en del av poenget. Den som styrer kentukien vet heller ikke hvor i verden kentukien befinner seg, dette er kunnskap man får etterhvert som kentukien blir en del av sitt nye hjem. Gjennom tilsynelatende harmløse og søte databamser gir kentukiene deg tilgang til andres private liv. Og via slike skamløse blikk oppdager vi at det å stole på fremmede kan føre til fantastiske eventyr, overraskende kjærlighet eller total skrekk.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Her most unsettling work yet -- and her most realistic." --New York TimesNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Vulture, Bustle, Refinery29, and Thrillist A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin's brilliant new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls--but yet they also expose the ugly side of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters, and marvelous adventure, but what happens when it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? This is a story that is already happening; it's familiar and unsettling because it's our present and we're living it, we just don't know it yet. In this prophecy of a story, Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that's somehow so sensible, so recognizable, that once it's entered, no one can ever leave.

De er overalt. De er her. De er os. De har infiltreret hjem i Hong Kong, butikker i Vancouver, gaderne i Sierra Leone, torve i Oaxaca, skoler i Tel Aviv, soveværelser i Indiana. De er ikke kæledyr eller spøgelser eller robotter. De er rigtige mennesker, men hvordan kan en person, der bor i Berlin, gå frit gennem stuen hos nogen i Sydney? Hvordan kan nogen i Bangkok spise morgenmad med dine børn i Buenos Aires, uden at du ved det? Især når disse mennesker er helt anonyme, ukendte, ikke sporbare. Gennem skiftende perspektiver, i et samfund hvor kentukier, nuttede bamser med hjul, øjne og ører, der ser og hører, er den nye dille blandt mennesker rundt omkring i verden, afsløres skønheden ved forbindelsen mellem fjerntboende sjæle - men der er også en hæslig bagside ved vores stadig mere sammenkædede verden. At stole på fremmede kan føre til uventet kærlighed, legende møder og vidunderlige eventyr, men hvad hvis det også kan bane vejen for ufattelig terror? Schweblin har skabt en mørk og kompleks verden, der både er velkendt, men også underligt foruroligende, fordi det er vores samtid, og vi lever i den - vi ved det bare ikke endnu. Romanen Kentuki var nomineret til The 2020 International Booker Prize. Denne bog er oversat af Liv Camilla Skjødt.

A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale A Guardian & Observer Best Fiction Book of 2020 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR Best Books of the Year World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2020 * Ebook Travel Guides Best 5 Books of 2020 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 They’re not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can trust them. They care about you... They've infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. Anonymous and untraceable, these seemingly cute cuddly toys reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls – but they also expose the ugly truth of our interconnected society. Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel pulls us into a dark and complex world of unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures. But beneath the cuddly exterior, kentukis conceal a truth that is unsettlingly familiar and exhilaratingly real. This is our present and we’re living it – we just don’t know it yet. *Little Eyes comes with two different covers, and the cover you receive will be chosen at random*

La extraordinaria primera novela de Samanta Schweblin, en la que se basa la pel cula hom nima de Claudia Llosa para NETFLIXHipn tica, inc moda y atrapante. PREMIO TIGRE JUANPREMIO OJO CR TICONOMINADA AL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quiz no se trate solo de sequ as y herbicidas, quiz se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un clich cuando finalmente sucede. Distancia de rescate sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haci ndose siempre las mismas preguntas: Hay acaso alg n apocalipsis que no sea personal? Cu l es el punto exacto en el que, sin saberlo, se da el paso en falso que, ahora s , nos condena? Samanta Schweblin ha escrito un relato extraordinario e hipn tico, urgente y perdurable, que logra mantenernos inevitablemente atrapados y sumergirnos en un universo de ficci n estremecedor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The book that inspired Fever Dream, a NETFLIX original film directed by Claudia Llosa (The Milk of Sorrow) "Genius." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." --Vanity FairShortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Her most unsettling work yet -- and her most realistic. --New York TimesNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Vulture, Bustle, Refinery29, and Thrillist A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin's brilliant new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls--but yet they also expose the ugly side of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters, and marvelous adventure, but what happens when it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? This is a story that is already happening; it's familiar and unsettling because it's our present and we're living it, we just don't know it yet. In this prophecy of a story, Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that's somehow so sensible, so recognizable, that once it's entered, no one can ever leave.

I Kentuki blir vi introdusert for datakjæledyrstypen kentuki. En kentuki er et digitalt kjæledyr som styres av en annen person et annet, ukjent sted i verden. Kentukien kan kommunisere fordi vedkommende «i den andre enden» kan se eierens verden på sin skjerm og styre den. Eksempler på kommunikasjon kan være f.eks. være å lage lyder, peke på ting, utføre kjærtegn eller tegn på motstand. Når man kjøper seg en kentuki, vet man altså ikke hvem som «er inni den», det er en del av poenget. Den som styrer kentukien vet heller ikke hvor i verden kentukien befinner seg, dette er kunnskap man får etterhvert som kentukien blir en del av sitt nye hjem. Gjennom tilsynelatende harmløse og søte databamser gir kentukiene deg tilgang til andres private liv. Og via slike skamløse blikk oppdager vi at det å stole på fremmede kan føre til fantastiske eventyr, overraskende kjærlighet eller total skrekk.

"Superb" -- Vogue"What makes Schweblin so startling as a writer, however, what makes her rare and important, is that she is impelled not by mere talent or ambition but by vision." -- New York Times A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. The brilliant stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary collection featuring women on the edge, men turned upside down, the natural world at odds with reality. We think life is one way, but often, it's not -- our expectations for how people act, love, fear can all be upended. Each character in Mouthful of Birds must contend with the unexpected, whether a family coming apart at the seams or a child transforming or a ghostly hellscape or a murder. Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing, and the line between the real and the strange blurs.

A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales.' J. M. Coetzee Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are impossible to forget. The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing. 'This is our world, and sharp-focused, but stripped of its usual meanings... Brutal violence is twisted into horrific, intensely experienced art.' Guardian *Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, 2019*

Kafka møder Brødrene Grimm i argentinske Samanta Schweblins Fugle i munden. Det er fortællinger, som med humor og suggestiv kraft bevæger sig på grænsen mellem realisme, gys og magisk realisme. En bog, der udvider feltet for, hvad litteraturen kan, og som i samme hug undersøger relationer mellem mennesker og mellem mennesker og natur. Samanta Schweblin første roman, Redningsafstand (da. 2017), var nomineret til the Man Booker International Prize.

Casi siempre comienza en los hogares. Ya se registran miles de casos en Vancouver, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Oaxaca, y se est propagando r pidamente a todos los rincones del mundo. Los kentukis no son mascotas, ni fantasmas, ni robots. Son ciudadanos reales, y el problema -se dice en las noticias y se comparte en las redes- es que una persona que vive en Berl n no deber a poder pasearse libremente por el living de otra que vive en Sidney, ni alguien que vive en Bangkok desayunar junto a tus hijos en tu departamento de Buenos Aires. En especial cuando esas personas que dejamos entrar a casa son completamente an nimas. Los personajes de esta novela encarnan el aspecto m s real -y a la vez imprevisible- de la compleja relaci n que tenemos con la tecnolog a, reavivando la noci n del exhibicionismo y exponiendo al lector a los l mites del prejuicio, el cuidado de los otros, la intimidad, el deseo y las buenas intenciones. Kentukis es una novela deslumbrante que potencia su sentido mucho m s all de la atracci n que genera desde sus p ginas. Una idea ins lita y oscura, tan sensata en sus reflejos que, una vez que se entra en ella, ya no se puede salir. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Her most unsettling work yet -- and her most realistic." --New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Vulture, Bustle, Refinery29, and Thrillist A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin's brilliant new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls--but yet they also expose the ugly side of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters, and marvelous adventure, but what happens when it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? This is a story that is already happening; it's familiar and unsettling because it's our present and we're living it, we just don't know it yet. In this prophecy of a story, Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that's somehow so sensible, so recognizable, that once it's entered, no one can ever leave.

"Superb" -- Vogue"What makes Schweblin so startling as a writer, however, what makes her rare and important, is that she is impelled not by mere talent or ambition but by vision." -- New York Times A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. The brilliant stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary collection featuring women on the edge, men turned upside down, the natural world at odds with reality. We think life is one way, but often, it's not -- our expectations for how people act, love, fear can all be upended. Each character in Mouthful of Birds must contend with the unexpected, whether a family coming apart at the seams or a child transforming or a ghostly hellscape or a murder. Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing, and the line between the real and the strange blurs.

Amanda prikhodit v sebja v polnoj temnote. Ona ne mozhet poshevelit ni rukami, ni nogami. Vse, chto ona slyshit, - golos malchika Davida, kotoryj trebuet ee vspomnit sobytija poslednikh dnej. Gde-to tam, sredi, kazalos by, neznachitelnykh proisshestvij kroetsja informatsija, kotoraja sposobna predotvratit tragediju, gotovuju vot-vot sluchitsja s Amandoj i ee docherju Ninoj. Amanda vspominaet, kak priekhala na otdykh v etu selskuju mestnost, kak sdruzhilas s Karloj, materju Davida, i kak ta rasskazala, chto odnazhdy dlja spasenija syna ona uprosila mestnuju koldunju proizvesti obrjad pereselenija dush. I eto bylo rokovoj oshibkoj. Sobytija stanovjatsja vse mrachnee i trevozhnee, i teper Amande nado ne tolko vo vsekh detaljakh vspomnit proshloe, no i ponjat, chego khochet David. I chto on skryvaet.

P jaros en la boca y otros cuentos supone la mejor v a de entrada al fascinante universo de quien, tras su nominaci n al Man Booker International Prize en 2017 con Distancia de rescate, es una de las voces de las letras hispanas con m s proyecci n en el actual panorama literario internacional. La presente compilaci n incluye veinte relatos ya publicados en ediciones anteriores de sus libros de cuentos y en ediciones internacionales, as como un relato in dito publicado por la revista Granta. La selecci n, llevada a cabo por la propia autora, configura una antolog a de su mejor prosa breve hasta la fecha, as como una pieza indispensable de la literatura contempor nea argentina. Heredera de la m s prestigiosa tradici n literaria, en la l nea de Raymond Carver y Flannery O'Connor, Schweblin maneja el lenguaje de una forma extraordinaria, con una prosa sobria y eficaz al servicio de historias que se mueven en el l mite entre lo real y lo fant stico. Los cuentos de Schweblin, perturbadores y desconcertantes, plantean un enigma que provoca y atrapa profundamente al lector. ENGLISH DESCRIPCION Mouthful of Birds is the best way to get to know the fascinating work of an author who, after the Man Booker Prize 2017 nomination, has become one of the great Hispanic literary voices to watch out for in the current international landscape. This collection includes twenty previously published stories, and one published in Granta magazine. These stories, chosen by Schweblin, make up a selection of her best short prose to date, as well as an essential piece of contemporary Argentine literature. Following the prestigious literary tradition that Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor paved, Schweblin masters the language extraordinarily, with a sobering and real prose that rests between reality and fantasy. Schweblin's stories, disturbing and disconcerting, pose questions that deeply capture readers.

NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX "Genius." --Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerFinalist for the Man Booker International Prize Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.