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©2018
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122 pages ; 21 cm
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"The stories included in this volume were selected from Amparo Dávila's Cuentos reunidos, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica (2009)."--Title page verso
With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest--Dávila's debut collection in English--you'll wonder how this secret was kept for so long
"New Directions Paperbook Original (NDP1428)"--Title page verso
Translated from the Spanish