A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (Translator)

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Paperback | 8 July 2025

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272 Pages

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19.8 x 12.9 x 2.0

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Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.

Industry Reviews

'Superb... a collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars' - Cal Revely Calder, Telegraph
'Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form... It is Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life... Unsettling' - John Self, Observer
'At her best, Enriquez has an unrivalled instinct for the subtly appalling image, a Lynchian (David, not Paul) sense of how horror inheres within the benign... Enriquez... is pretty much unbeatable' - AK Blakemore, Guardian
'This collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the [horror] genre to an entirely new level... enticing... deeply unsettling, darkly humorous and, like all good horror movies and books, you can't look away - even for a second' - Emily Goulding, NB magazine

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