The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, Matthew Gleeson (Translator), Audrey Harris (Translator)

The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, Matthew Gleeson (Translator), Audrey Harris (Translator)

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The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller

 

Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.


Number of pages: 144

Dimensions: 206 x 132 x 10 mm

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