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Good and evil and other stories / Samanta Schweblin ; translated by Megan McDowell.
Van Pelt Library PQ7798.29.C5388 B8413 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - New Acquisitions Schweblin Good
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Buen mal. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil--Fiction.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Schweblin, Samanta, 1978---Translations into English.
- Spanish fiction--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Psychological fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- "Sculpted and lucid, strange and uncanny, here is a masterpiece of suggestiveness. Step by step these seven stories lure us into the shadows to confront the monsters of everyday life - ourselves. Guilt, grief, and relationships severed permeate this collection - but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love, and longing, each sinister and beautiful. When something seismic happens in our lives, the waves keep coming for years after, with warning or without. Sometimes, all we can do is wait around the corner, ear pressed to the phone receiver, for them to arrive. Fantastical and subtly terrifying, these stories draw on magical realism, psychological fiction, and the dark side of fairy tales, inherited from literary predecessors like the Brothers Grimm and Jorge Luis Borges. Yet, far from antiquated or closed off, Schweblin's worlds invite us in, like quicksand or a strong river's current. These stories will insinuate themselves into your heart, and your bloodstream"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Welcome to the club
- A fabulous animal
- William in the window
- An eye in the throat
- The woman from Atlántida
- A visit from the chief.
- Notes:
- "A Borzoi book" -- title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- Good and evil and other stories
- ISBN:
- 9780593803103
- 0593803108
- OCLC:
- 1453287861
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