Mouthful of Birds - Short Stories

Informationen zum Autor Samanta Schweblin  is the author of three story collections and two novels, which have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into twenty languages. Her debut novel   Fever Dream   was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017, and her short-story collection  Seven Empty Houses  won the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2022. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell  has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in  The New Yorker, Harper's  and  The Paris Review . She lives in Chile. Klappentext  A spellbinding, eerily unsettling collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever DreamMouthful of Birds is the award-winning collection by Samanta Schweblin, critically acclaimed author of Fever Dream. Unearthly and unexpected, these stories burrow their way into your psyche with the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark takes on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing and blurring the line between the real and the strange.With her hallmark style, made popular by Fever Dream - hailed as 'terrifying and brilliant...dangerously addictive' by the Guardian - Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.

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'Spritely and uncanny, this is a beautifully imagined and skilfully executed collection of stories.' International Booker Prize judges

Product details

• Authors: Megan McDowell, Samanta Schweblin
• Assisted by: Megan McDowell (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781786074560
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-456-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Ghost, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Horror, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American, Horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary