{"title":"Samanta Schweblin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamanta Schweblin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Buenos Aires in 1978, where she studied Film and Television. She is the author of the short story collections \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMouthful of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeven Empty Houses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won her the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2022, as well as the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a finalist for the International Booker Prize, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Considered one of the finest writers in South American literature of recent decades, her work has been translated in more than twenty-five countries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"o-bom-mal","title":"The good evil","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ambiguous territories of human reality, in their most beautiful but also most disturbing manifestations, such as the guilt that is born from pain and brings a breath of life and justifies it, are the humus of the new short story collection by the acclaimed Argentine writer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamanta Schweblin\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSituated in the limbo between the real and the dreamlike, the recognizable and the strange, these six narratives open themselves, without certainties or securities, to the enchantment of the extraordinary, to the hauntings of everyday life, creating tension and eagerness in those who read them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritical acclaim:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«In the experience of reading the great Schweblin, there is a before and an after, and the memory of something that will never leave us again.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnrique Vila-Matas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«No one writes like Samanta Schweblin. Her stories are unique… wonderfully unpredictable and captivatingly strange.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorrie Moore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«Written with a precision that borders on the prodigious, the six short stories of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Good Evil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Samanta Schweblin expand the boundaries of what is understood by “short story” and confirm her as one of the most remarkable writers in contemporary literature.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaúl Zurita\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elsinore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53214476763402,"sku":null,"price":17.85,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/o-bom-mal-ES35539-600x928.webp?v=1781509430"},{"product_id":"sete-casas-vazias","title":"Seven empty houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Impressive… It is incomparable to anything currently being written.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My mother is lying face down on the carpet in the middle of the master bedroom. The sugar bowl is on the dresser, next to her watch and her bracelets, which she has obviously taken off. Her legs and arms are open and spread apart, and at times I wonder if there is another way to embrace things as enormously large as a house, if that is what my mother is trying to do.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house is the place of intimacy. Its floors, where we eat, sleep, argue, love, are part of our past, hiding secrets, desires, betrayals. That is why we feel uneasy whenever someone enters that space, feeling watched and judged, as if something that should remain hidden were finally revealed to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSeven Empty Houses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Samanta Schweblin does not hold back from putting her finger on that wound, denying the reader any kind of relief; and loss, emotional violence, illness, selfishness, our most intimate flaws become, in themselves, the entire space we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elsinore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53214504976650,"sku":null,"price":16.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/sete-casas-vazias-ES87274-scaled.webp?v=1781510216"},{"product_id":"kentukis","title":"Kentucky","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A literary explorer of 21st-century fears.” –\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLa Vanguardia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThousands of cases have already been reported: real people, of all ages and social backgrounds, from different continents and connected online, come into contact with one another through the latest technological invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Vancouver to Hong Kong, from Tel Aviv to Barcelona, kentukis are spreading rapidly to every corner of the world, allowing, under the apparent innocence of a toy, a complete stranger to enter our most intimate spaces, leading us into a wonderful adventure, an unexpected love, or, just as easily, an unparalleled terror?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamanta Schweblin’s second novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKentukis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereveals the price we pay for our complex and constant relationship with technology, rethinking our notion of voyeurism and exposing the reader to the limits of prejudice, desire, and good intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is brilliant is not what Schweblin says, but rather how she says it. Its highly enigmatic and disciplined structure seems to place this book in a new literary genre.” –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elsinore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53214512316682,"sku":null,"price":17.85,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/kentukis-ES64574.webp?v=1781510283"},{"product_id":"passaros-na-boca","title":"Birds in the mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003e“If you bash someone’s head against the asphalt too much—even if it’s to make them be reasonable—you’ll probably end up regretting it. 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