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Mariana Enriquezs gripping stories, finally translated into English last year, are a case in point.
Grotesque body horror women setting themselves on fire, a girl yanking out her fingernails (sorry!
The ensuing events blend the visceral and the metafictional, leading to an utterly chilling conclusion.
Its both a powerful metaphor for Italian history and a paranoid thriller for any time, especially ours.T.C.
Its among the most immersive fiction youre ever likely to encounter.T.C.
The language immerses the reader in the novels milieu, but also charts out unexpected dimensions.T.C.
Throughout, Tokarczuk deftly shifts perspectives from the intimate and memoir-esque to the sweeping and historical.
There had never been any other people, not in my lifetime, nowhere in the whole world.
The anonymous narrator ofAn Untouched Houseis a Dutch soldier in World War II.
Problems arise when the legal occupants show up.
It tells the story of three inmates and the three women they convince to bring drugs into prison.
All are described in language by turns exalted and vulgar.
Elsewhere, a body cavity search becomes an occasion for a phenomenological meditation on the malleability of desire.
Revueltass febrile sentences are as concentrated and intense as anything by Thomas Bernhard or Hermann Broch.C.B.
Normally this would be a simple task, but in wartime nothing is simple.
Think of the compulsions that might overcome you.
Ikonomous short stories describe the lives of Greeks coping with the economic fallout of the debt crisis.
Each of their stories is gripping from the first to the last.C.B.
Theyre all after the same thing: observing, cataloguing, and controlling the human experience.L.R.
