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The characters in Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls but they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures, but what if it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? Schweblin has created a dark and complex world that is both familiar but also strangely unsettling, because it's our present and we're living it - we just don't know it yet.   

Amanda Goff was a successful journalist in London and Sydney before ditching her nine-to-five job at the age of 38 to become Samantha X, Australia's most famous escort. A bipolar diagnosis changed everything: she retired from sex work, walked away from Samantha X, and went in search of Amanda.

Brought to you by Penguin. One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it's leaked to the press. As he interviews the people closest to her – a...

Where they rest for eternal life is where a favor is asked. The stone with the head is where you will be led. Be certain of the favor you ask; no second is offered. The debt will be collected when the favor is complete. A favor asked is a debt owed. My mom's marriage to Thomas Valerian was supposed to be our fresh start, but it was the opposite of that.

‘No one writes like Samanta Schweblin’ – Lorrie Moore The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare...

All-round chaos merchant Nell Jenkins has returned to Aotearoa-New Zealand to fulfil family duties for the mother and brother she's barely seen since making her small-town escape as a teen. But her homecoming isn't the triumph it should be. She has nothing to show for her time in Sydney but a string of failed relationships, crappy jobs and an ongoing HR complaint against her ex-girlfriend, now former boss.

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes a hotly anticipated new collection of eerie short stories. Playful and unsettling, teeming with the energy of barely contained violence, Seven Empty Houses dismantles the neat appearance of domesticity to expose the darkness and discomfort that lies beneath.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Her most unsettling work yet — and her most realistic." --New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Vulture, Bustle, Refinery29, and Thrillist...

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A 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...

A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection. Schweblin's...

Brilliantly read by a multi-cast of narrators. The International Bestseller 'Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled' - Anne Enright, Booker Prize winning author of The Wren, The Wren 'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon...

‘It’s a total mind-wrecker’ – Max Porter ‘The book I wish I had written’ – Lisa Taddeo ‘Utterly gripping’ – The Observer ‘Dazzling’ – Evening Standard Amanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying feverish and unseeing in her hospital bed, she tries her best to...

Las casas son siete, y están vacías. La narradora, según Rodrigo Fresán, es una científica cuerda contemplando locos, o gente que está pensando seriamente en volverse loca. Y la cordura, como siempre, es superficial. Samanta Schweblin nos arrastra hacia Siete casas vacías y, en torno a ellas, empuja a sus personajes a explorar terrores cotidianos, a diseccionar los miedos propios y ajenos, y a poner sobre la mesa los prejuicios de quienes, entre el extrañamiento y una normalidad enrarecida, contemplan a los demás y se contemplan.

De er overalt. De er her. De er os. De har infiltreret hjem i Hong Kong, butikker i Vancouver, gaderne i Sierra Leone, torve i Oaxaca, skoler i Tel Aviv, soveværelser i Indiana. De er ikke kæledyr eller spøgelser eller robotter. De er rigtige mennesker, men hvordan kan en person, der bor i Berlin, gå frit gennem stuen hos nogen i Sydney? Hvordan kan nogen i Bangkok spise morgenmad med dine børn i Buenos Aires, uden at du ved det? Især når disse mennesker er helt anonyme, ukendte, ikke sporbare.

Kafka møder Brødrene Grimm i argentinske Samanta Schweblins "Fugle i munden". Det er fortællinger, som med humor og suggestiv kraft bevæger sig på grænsen mellem realisme, gys og magisk realisme. En bog, der udvider feltet for, hvad litteraturen kan, og som i samme hug undersøger relationer mellem mennesker og mellem mennesker og natur. Samanta Schweblin første roman, "Redningsafstand" (da. 2017), var nomineret til the Man Booker International Prize.

I Redningsafstand befinder vi os i en argentinsk flække langt fra byerne. Her løber en forgiftet bæk. Her ligger en fabrik, som tager imod lastbiler fulde af store dunke. Sygeplejersken behandler det meste med håndkøbsmedicin. Hvis der sker noget alvorligt, konsulterer man kvinden i det grønne hus. Og så er der ormene. Det er et miljø, hvor man ikke tager øjnene fra sit barn. Nogle gange har man bare ikke øjne nok, som det hedder i anslaget. Redningsafstand er en gysende intens, foruroligende og enkel roman for to stemmer, der befinder sig i en slags tomrum.

Je to sen, realita, horor, blouznění v horečce nebo noční můra? Amanda leží na nemocničním lůžku a hledá bod zlomu, okamžik, kdy jedním banálním krokem odbočila z cesty a směřuje k nevyhnutelné katastrofě. Společnost jí dělá chlapec David, který jí svými otázkami pomáhá rekonstruovat, co se přihodilo s její dcerou Ninou a proč se Amandou tolik střežená záchranná vzdálenost prolomila. Při hledání toho momentu trvá nekompromisně na detailech a nutí Amandu přehrát si každý detail toho léta na odlehlém argentinském venkově.

“Strega left me breathless, angry, and then thrilled by the dare it leaves in the reader's lap.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and The Chronology of Water Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a remote Alpine hotel and what...