{"title":"Mariana Enríquez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eExplore Mariana Enriquez's books available in Australia. Realism, horror, and Argentinian narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"las-cosas-que-perdimos-en-el-fuego-mariana-enriquez","title":"Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eMariana Enriquez's world doesn't have to be ours, and yet, it becomes so. It only takes a few sentences to step into it, breathe it in, and never forget it, thanks to an unusual emotional vividness. With everyday life turned into a nightmare, the reader awakens disheartened, disturbed by stories and images they will never be able to shake off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe self-proclaimed \"burning women\" protesting against an extreme form of domestic violence that has gone viral; a student who pulls out her nails and eyelashes, and another who tries to help her; the years of government-mandated blackouts during which three friends get high, remaining friends until death do them part; the famous serial killer known as Petiso Orejudo, who was only nine years old; hikikomori, black magic, jealousy, heartbreak, rural superstitions, abandoned or haunted buildings... In these twelve stories, the reader is forced to forget themselves to follow the adventures and investigations of bodies that disappear or reappear at the least expected moment. Whether a social worker, a police officer, or a tour guide, the protagonists strive to advocate for socially invisible beings, thus delving into the weight of guilt, compassion, cruelty, the difficulties of coexistence, and a terror as profound as it is believable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMariana Enriquez is one of the bravest and most surprising narrators of the 21st century, not only within the new Argentine literature by writers born during the dictatorship but also in literature from any country or language. Mariana Enriquez transforms literary genres into narrative resources, from noir fiction to dirty realism, encompassing horror, chronicles, and humor, and delves with pain and beauty into the roots, flames, and darkness of all existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44150010708019,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/8.png?v=1774524346"},{"product_id":"un-lugar-soleado-para-gente-sombria-mariana-enriquez","title":"A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhoever dares to delve into the pages of this book will feel a shiver run down their spine, and then some. These are twelve tales of horror, twelve stories about horror: about the evil that lurks and the monsters that suddenly emerge in the most everyday reality, in large cities or remote small towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn one of the stories, a woman keeps at bay the ghosts that roam loose in a peripheral neighborhood of Buenos Aires; among them, those of her mother who died of a painful illness, those of teenagers murdered in the street, that of a thief caught mid-robbery, and that of a boy fleeing a express kidnapping. In another story, a couple rents a house for a vacation in a town that has been losing inhabitants since the train stopped running; they visit an exhibition of disturbing canvases by a local artist in the abandoned station, but the truly terrifying thing will be meeting the author of those paintings. In another piece, volunteers from an NGO distributing food in marginalized neighborhoods are pursued by children with terrifying black eyes. In another, a journalist investigating the story of a girl who disappeared in a Los Angeles hotel, whose chilling images went viral online, ends up confronting another legend of the city...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter her monumental and acclaimed novel *Our Share of Night*, Mariana Enriquez returns to the short story and proves that she is still in top form as a great continuer and renovator of the horror genre, which she has elevated to the highest literary levels. Starting from tradition – from gothic novels to Stephen King and Thomas Ligotti – the writer explores new paths, new dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44150010904627,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/9.png?v=1774524509"},{"product_id":"como-desaparecer-completamente-mariana-enriquez","title":"How to Disappear Completely, Mariana Enriquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Matías Kovac, a sixteen-year-old, apathetic, and marginalized young man who needs to break out of himself. The way to do it seems to be hidden in the diaries that Cristian, his brother, bequeaths to him when he flees to Barcelona. Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave, Suede, and Patti Smith thus form a kind of sacred text that Matías strives to decipher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2004 after the Argentine economic crisis, it draws on the social decomposition and widespread pessimism of the time to depict the fragility of family structures and the ease with which they can be broken forever. Matías's father abandoned them motivated by evangelical pastors, his mother lies prostrate in bed knocked out by the effect of sleeping pills, and his sister, Carla, only shows herself with a balaclava that hides her face, disfigured in a suicide attempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarcelona thus becomes his personal Ithaca, the only escape route, which definitively opens when a huge package of cocaine falls into his hands: thus begins the bloody delirium through the suburban, neglected, and ghostly neighborhood where he lives. The money leads him to Julián, and Julián to the punks, who hold recitals, drink boxed wine, and wear torn fishnet stockings. Matías's will to escape ties him more to his family drama, but in the course of the novel, other ways of inhabiting a world that seems to be constantly degrading are revealed little by little. \"I know I can be different, I don't want to die like this,\" he tells himself over and over again. Can all this darkness lead to a sunnier place?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259326394419,"sku":"9788433946720","price":51.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/NUEVOPEDIDO.png?v=1778289842"},{"product_id":"los-peligros-de-fumar-en-la-cama","title":"The dangers of smoking in bed","description":"\u003cp\u003eA little girl unearths some bones in the garden that turn out not to be from an animal; the bucolic summer scene of girls bathing in a natural setting turns into a hell of jealousy with disturbing consequences; a despised beggar sows misfortune in an affluent neighborhood; Barcelona transforms into a disturbing stage, marked by guilt and from which escape is impossible; a ghostly presence seeks a sacrifice in a spa; a girl feels a fetishistic attraction to sick hearts; a rock star who died atrociously receives a tribute from his fans that goes beyond imagination; a boy who clandestinely films couples making love and women in high heels walking through the streets receives an offer that will change his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the twelve superb stories that make up this volume, Mariana Enriquez displays a whole repertoire of classic horror story resources: spectral apparitions, witches, seances, caves, visions, the dead returning to life... But, far from proposing a mere archaeological revisit of the genre, she reworks this material with her own radically modern voice. Following the thread of the best tradition, she takes it a step further, with stories that delve into the sinister lurking in the everyday, unfold a murky eroticism, and create powerful images that leave an indelible mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose who discovered Mariana Enriquez with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings We Lost in the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enow hold an earlier book, in which the universe of a writer who connects with modern masters of horror literature such as Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, or her compatriot Cortázar, is already perfectly outlined. Enriquez peers into the most hidden abysses of the human soul, into the submerged currents of sexuality and obsession...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44264045412403,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/lospeligrosdefumarenlacama.png?v=1778459754"},{"product_id":"archipielago-mariana-enriquez","title":"Archipiélago, Mariana Enriquez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHay libros que alteran los sentidos y alientan el fanatismo. Hay lecturas desenfrenadas, perturbadoras, obsesivas. En estas páginas, Mariana Enriquez navega entre las agitadas mareas de la literatura, se detiene en islas ocultas repletas de personajes, escenas fantasmales, ruinas góticas, sensibilidades eróticas o suicidas. En este viaje también hay trabajo en la lectura, ansias de saber, largas horas de búsqueda. No faltan los secretos de lectora que camina por galerías mortuorias, ni los truculentos paisajes que pueblan los textos y se encarnan en la propia memoria. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchipiélago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e es la suma literaria de una formación intensa, entregada al magnetismo de las palabras, la mirada incisiva y los fetiches del cuerpo.     \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44346315767859,"sku":"9786316558336","price":52.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/Archipielago.png?v=1779795368"},{"product_id":"este-es-el-mar-mariana-enriquez","title":"Éste es el mar, Mariana Enriquez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHelena es fan de la banda Fallen. Una abeja más de un enjambre de jovencitas cuya vida se vuelve macabra y sórdida. Giras, sobredosis, carpetas con cuatro mil quinientas horas de archivos, amores enfermizos, aislamiento. Una lucha alocada por convertirse en la fan más fiel. Chicas que mueren con la foto de su ídolo y el estómago lleno de pastillas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRitos de pasaje, adolescentes fanatizadas con estrellas de rock, inframundos donde conviven seres que han complotado para que Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious y Jim Morrison mueran repentinamente... En \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eÉste es el mar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Mariana Enriquez alcanza una nueva forma de escritura, hurga en lo macabro, atraviesa el universo de lo desconocido y lo monstruoso para posicionarse en un territorio poco explorado de la literatura argentina. 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