Evil Eye, Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin, the master of contemporary Latin American short fiction, returns with a book destined to become a global classic.

Magnetic and irresistible. In each of the stories in *El buen mal*, Samanta Schweblin abducts us to another dimension where we come into intimate contact with her characters. Dazzled by the glow of impending tragedy, vulnerable and profoundly human, they realize how much the unexpected could transform them. Some will be left standing before pain, others conversing with guilt, and all will be pierced by uncertainty. Does it matter to know what is true? It is, from beginning to end, about being participants in a phenomenal literary artifice. With unprecedented insight, Schweblin intuits the breaking point of a will, the premonitory intensity of a tremor, and the distance that tenderness imposes. She knows the best of the infinite possibilities of a story and how to fit the pieces of a plot together to create a great narrative that sinks and projects, darkens and illuminates the daily life of the era and the soul of those who inhabit it. In her internationally awarded literature, the edges between reality and dream dazzle like those of a knife.