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Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Samuel despierta la mañana de Año Nuevo convencido de que nada insólito le traerá el nuevo día ... hasta que un extraño visitante irrumpe en su apartamento dispuesto a no abandonarlo. La aparición de Mishima, un joven gato callejero, será el principio de la increíble transformación que está a punto acontecer en el hermético mundo que la construido a su alrededor. Mishima le conduce a un extraño encuentro con Valdemar y con su vecino,...
Author
Publisher
Malpaso
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La Casona es mucho más que una cárcel: es un microcosmos donde cada uno de los individuos que lo componen, desde el gobernador de la prisión hasta su mujer, pasando por los presos y los guardias, aceptan su suerte con resignación. La religión como salvación, el culto prohibido que todos profesan a una diosa vengativa que pretende destruir el mundo, y la peste, que matará por igual a ricos y pobres, une a estos personajes dispares de un rincón...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to...
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