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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Author(s): Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell (translator)

Location(s): Buenos Aires

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): Contemporary

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.

These brilliant, unsettling tales of revenge, witchcraft, fetishes, disappearances and urban madness spill over with women and girls whose dark inclinations will lead them over the edge.

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