A delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.

Details

ISBN13: 9781803511245
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 272
Edition:
Publication Date: 08 Jul 2025
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City, Country: London,United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

MARIANA ENRIQUEZ is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, and Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela. Mariana now lives in Launceston, Tasmania.

MEGAN MCDOWELL has translated Alejandro Zambra and Samanta Schweblin, among other writers. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Reviews

'Superb... a collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars' - Cal Revely Calder, Telegraph
'Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form... It is Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life... Unsettling' - John Self, Observer
'At her best, Enriquez has an unrivalled instinct for the subtly appalling image, a Lynchian (David, not Paul) sense of how horror inheres within the benign... Enriquez... is pretty much unbeatable' - AK Blakemore, Guardian
'This collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the [horror] genre to an entirely new level... enticing... deeply unsettling, darkly humorous and, like all good horror movies and books, you can't look away - even for a second' - Emily Goulding, NB magazine