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Things we lost in the fire ; translated by Megan McDowell

Enriquez, Mariana

Things we lost in the fire ; translated by Megan McDowell - London : Granta, 2017 - 202p

This edition published in 2019.

The Dirty Kid - 11
The Inn - 37
The Intoxicated Years - 51
Adela's House - 66
An Invocation of the Big-Eared Runt - 82
Spiderweb - 94
End of Term - 119
No Flesh Over Our Bones - 126
The Neighbor's Courtyard - 132
Under the Black Water - 156
Green Red Orange - 176
Things We Lost in the Fire - 186
Translator's note - 199

Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies in the flames...

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