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  • Fiction
  • 2025
  • First U.S. hardcover edition.

Good and evil and other stories

Samanta Schweblin, (1978-)

Samanta Schweblin, (1978-), Megan McDowell

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"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"--

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Title Statement Good and evil and other stories / Samanta Schweblin ; translated by Megan McDowell.
Author Schweblin, Samanta, 1978-
Additional Contributors Schweblin, Samanta,1978-
McDowell, Megan
Publication New York: Alfred A. Knopf,2025.
Edition First U.S. hardcover edition.
Extent of Item vii, 176 pages ;
ISBN 9780593803103 (hardcover)
Other Number pr08003846
General Notes Originally published in Spanish as El buen mai.
"Borzoi book."
Languages In English, translated from the Spanish.
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.
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"--
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