Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)
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Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) by Samanta Schweblin
Finalist for 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.Samanta Schweblin is the author of Fever Dream, a Man Booker International Award finalist and her first novel to be translated into English. Granta named her one of the twenty-two best Spanish writers under the age of 35, and she is on the Bogotá39-2017 list. Her pieces have won multiple accolades in Spanish, including the famous Juan Rulfo Story Award, and have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and other publications in English. She has had her work translated into twenty different languages. Megan McDowell was born in Buenos Aires and now lives in Berlin. She has translated works by many current South American and Spanish authors, and her work has appeared in journals such as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, and Vice. She is a Chilean citizen.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525541394 |
| ISBN 10 | 052554139X |
| Title | Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) |
| Author | Samanta Schweblin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2022-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Awards (Translation) 2022 |
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