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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enriquez

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (Translator)

Paperback | 29 March 2022

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A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic.

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' - Lauren Groff


Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.

Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.

'There is some serious power in this writing' - Daisy Johnson

About the Author


Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the internationally acclaimed author of Things We Lost in the Fire, and her novel Our Share of the Night, which was awarded the prestigious 2019 Premio Herralde de Novela, will be published by Granta Books in 2022.
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'A weird and wonderful exploration of contemporary horror - cities falling apart, society turning on itself, the loneliness of the internet age -stories from that compelling space between grimy, crushing reality and nightmare. But more than that: these stories are fun. Wild, triggering, sinister, button-pushing fun' - Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies

'After you've lived in Enriquez's marvellous brain for the time it takes to read THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED, the known world feels ratcheted a few degrees off-centre. Mariana Enriquez's stories are smoky, carnal and dazzling' - Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

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