Thirst - A Novel

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” -- It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with humans, and attempts to be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother''s terminal illness and her own relationship to motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites inside the two women--and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s “Channeling Carmen Maria Machado and Anne Rice, Yuszczuk reimagines the vampire novel, with a distinctly Latin American feminist Gothic twist.”

About the author

Marina Yuszczuk; Translated by Heather Cleary

Product details

• Authors: Heather Cleary, Marina Yuszczuk
• Assisted by: Cleary Heather (Translation)
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9780593472088
• ISBN: 978-0-593-47208-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Horror & ghost stories, Occult fiction, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary