{"title":"Mariana Enriquez","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"las-cosas-que-perdimos-en-el-fuego-mariana-enriquez","title":"Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"772\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEveryday Life Turned Nightmare: The Gateway to Mariana Enriquez's Universe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"772\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"479\"\u003eLas cosas que perdimos en el fuego\u003c\/em\u003e, Mariana Enriquez brings terror into the realm of the everyday. Her stories take place in neighborhoods, houses, families, and recognizable bodies, but something twists from the very first page: a rare emotional vividness turns every scene into a nightmare the reader cannot forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"1294\"\u003eThis collection features the self-called \u003cem data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"840\"\u003emujeres ardientes\u003c\/em\u003e, who respond to extreme machista violence with a brutal form of protest; a student who pulls out her nails and eyelashes while another tries to hold her together; the years of blackouts decreed by the government during which three friends become poisoned and forever linked; the real figure of the child murderer Petiso Orejudo; hikikomori, black magic, jealousy, heartbreak, rural superstitions, and abandoned buildings that seem to breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1814\"\u003eThe protagonists are often social workers, police officers, tour guides, and other figures who interact with marginalized people. Through them, Enriquez explores guilt, compassion, cruelty, the difficulties of living with others, and a deeply believable terror shaped by poverty, gender violence, and social inequality. The result is a dark and political literature that transforms horror into a tool to face head-on what is usually preferred to be unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"2265\"\u003eConsidered one of the most powerful narrators in contemporary Argentine literature, Mariana Enriquez plays with elements of crime fiction, dirty realism, reportage, and humor to build a unique, recognizable, and disturbing universe. \u003cem data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2095\"\u003eLas cosas que perdimos en el fuego\u003c\/em\u003e is the ideal gateway to that world: a perfect book for those seeking horror and mystery with social depth, urban atmosphere, and a voice that makes no concessions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56330527539544,"sku":"LIB-LA-ED-356","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/las-cosas-que-perdimos-en-el-fuego-mariana-enriquez-9897839.jpg?v=1764842292"},{"product_id":"los-peligros-de-fumar-en-la-cama-580-narrativas-hispanicas","title":"Los peligros de fumar en la cama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve stories in which the terrifying seeps into the everyday. Twelve disturbing tales that take the horror genre to a new dimension.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA girl unearths bones in the garden that turn out not to be animal; the idyllic summer scene of girls bathing in a natural setting turns into a hell of jealousy with unsettling consequences; a despised beggar sows misfortune in a wealthy neighborhood; Barcelona transforms into a disturbing setting marked by guilt and from which there is no escape; a ghostly presence seeks a sacrifice at a spa; a girl feels a fetishistic attraction to sick hearts; a rock musician who died in a gruesome way receives a tribute from his fans that goes beyond the imaginable; a boy who secretly films couples making love and women walking the streets in high heels receives a proposal that will change his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the twelve superb stories that make up this volume, Mariana Enriquez unfolds a whole repertoire of classic horror story elements: spectral apparitions, witches, séances, caves, visions, the dead coming back to life... But, far from offering a mere archaeological revisitation of the genre, she reworks this material with a unique and radically modern voice. Drawing on the best tradition, she takes it a step further, with stories that explore the sinister lurking in the everyday, unfold a murky eroticism, and create powerful images that leave an indelible mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose who discovered Mariana Enriquez with Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego now have in their hands an earlier book, in which the universe of a writer who connects with modern masters of horror literature like Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, or her compatriot Cortázar is already perfectly drawn. Enriquez peers into the deepest abysses of the human soul, the hidden currents of sexuality and obsession...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56733564731736,"sku":"LIB-LO-ED-515","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788433998248.jpg?v=1771287485"},{"product_id":"nuestra-parte-de-noche-636-narrativas-hispanicas","title":"Nuestra parte de noche","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"297\"\u003eInheritance, the desire to survive, fatherhood, horror, the intimate and the political intertwine in this free, bold, and deeply hypnotic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"717\"\u003eA father and son travel across Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to the Iguazú Falls, during the military dictatorship. Along the way, armed checkpoints and constant tension reveal a country gripped by fear. The son, Gaspar, is still a child, and his father tries to protect him from a fate that seems inevitable. The mother died under ambiguous circumstances, in an accident that perhaps was not one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"719\" data-end=\"1223\"\u003eLike his father, Gaspar is destined to become a medium for a secret society known as the Order, a group seeking eternal life through contact with Darkness and the practice of atrocious rituals. The price these mediums pay is devastating: physical and mental wear is swift and relentless. The Order, dominated by Gaspar’s powerful maternal family, has roots in a dark history stretching back centuries, from Africa to England and finally Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1225\" data-end=\"1747\"\u003eThe novel unfolds a disturbing universe inhabited by houses that mutate from within, passageways hiding impossible creatures, sacrifice rituals, enigmatic sexual liturgies, and objects turned into fetishes. It also traverses the psychedelic London of the sixties, where Gaspar’s mother met a young androgynous singer named David, and delves into the political violence of the dictatorship, the disappeared, the uncertain arrival of democracy, and the early years of AIDS in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"1986\"\u003eIn this work, supernatural terror merges with very real historical horrors. A disturbing and dazzling novel that confirms Mariana Enriquez as one of the essential voices of 21st-century Latin American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56734128537944,"sku":"LIB-NU-ED-518","price":24.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788433998859.jpg?v=1771293742"},{"product_id":"un-lugar-soleado-para-gente-sombria-mariana-enriquez","title":"Un lugar soleado para gente sombría","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone who dares to delve into the pages of this book will feel a chill running down their spine, and more. These are twelve horror stories, twelve tales about horror: about the evil that lurks and the monsters that suddenly emerge in the most ordinary reality, in large cities or small remote towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the stories, a woman keeps at bay the ghosts roaming a peripheral neighborhood of Buenos Aires; among them, those of her mother who died from a painful illness, those of teenage girls murdered on the street, that of a thief caught in the act, and that of a boy fleeing a quick kidnapping. In another story, a couple rents a house for a vacation in a town that has been losing inhabitants since the train stopped running; they visit the exhibition of disturbing paintings by a local artist at the abandoned station, but the truly terrifying thing will be meeting the author of those paintings. In another piece, volunteers from an NGO distributing food in marginalized neighborhoods are pursued by children with terrifying black eyes. In another, a journalist investigating the story of a girl who disappeared in a hotel in Los Angeles, whose chilling images went viral on the internet, ends up confronting another city legend…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her monumental and acclaimed novel Nuestra parte de noche, Mariana Enriquez returns to the short story and proves she is still in great form as a major successor and innovator of the horror genre, which she has elevated to the highest literary levels. Drawing from tradition—from gothic novels to Stephen King and Thomas Ligotti—the writer explores new paths, new dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57123494429016,"sku":"LIB-UN-ED-816","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788433922861.jpg?v=1776375160"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/mariana-enriquez.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}