The Houseguest : And Other Stories - Amparo Davila
Amparo Davila
- Pages · 144 pages
- Publication Date · 27/11/2018
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo D�vila's stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted-you'll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, D�vila 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-D�vila's debut collection in English-you'll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
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