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Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring.

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Main Author:	Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- (Author)
Other Authors:	McDowell, Megan (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Schweblin, Samanta, > 1978- > Translations into English. Married people > Fiction. Dysfunctional families > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Short stories.
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Summary:	Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring. In the tradition of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor, Schweblin's stories move on the boundary between the real and the fantastic. This selection, chosen by the author, is an indispensible piece of contemporary Argentine literature.
Item Description:	"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Pájaros en la boca by Random House Mondadori."
Physical Description:	228 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9780399184628 0399184627
Author Notes:	Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel, Fever Dream , a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and her first book translated into English. She was chosen as one of the twenty-two best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta and is on the Bogotá39-2017 list. Her stories in Spanish have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and in English have appeared in The New Yorker , Harper's , and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin. Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in The New Yorker , Harper's , The Paris Review , McSweeney's , Words Without Borders , and Vice, among other publications. She lives in Chile.