{"product_id":"seven-empty-houses-national-book-award-winner","title":"Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, \"lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” \u003cstrong\u003e–O, the Oprah magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[H]er newest collection may be her most unsettling.... The spectacular and strange stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSeven Empty Houses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, translated by Schweblin’s longtime English translator Megan McDowell, pertain to nothing more mysterious than mistaken perceptions, debilitating grief and the often-torturous passage of time.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] sense of dreamlike menace infuses the linked fictions in Samanta Schweblin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSeven Empty Houses,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebeautifully translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.... These stories pulse with blood and lust, ego and id, as Schweblin punches above her weight.... Schweblin is at the forefront of emerging Latin American writers, defiant and assured, swaggering among the jungles of sex, love, and politics.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56819271303513,"sku":"10 DC 25 \/ K","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/6021\/files\/9780525541394.jpg?v=1765327066","url":"https:\/\/www.quaybooksstore.com\/products\/seven-empty-houses-national-book-award-winner","provider":"Quay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}