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Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk
Narrated by: Elena Sanz, Giulietta Vainer
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Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America's feminist Gothic.

In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires, on the run from the Church. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and, most importantly, be discreet.

In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there's no turning back.

With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.

©2024 Marina Yuszczuk (P)2024 W.F. Howes Ltd.
Genre Fiction Horror Literature & Fiction Latin America
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the first narrator was excellent - creepy, gothic, suspenseful. the second one will pull you right out of that. couldn't listen to it so no idea if story is good or not.

if you like your vampires sounding like an American chipmunk, by all means, listen

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