Things We Lost in the Fire (story collection)

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories (Spanish: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego) is a short story collection by Mariana Enriquez. Originally published in Spanish, it was translated into English by Megan McDowell in 2017.[1]

Things We Lost in the Fire
AuthorMariana Enriquez
Original titleLas cosas que perdimos en el fuego
TranslatorMegan McDowell
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
GenreShort Stories
PublisherHogarth Press
Publication date
2016
Published in English
2017
Media typeHardcover
Pages208
ISBN978-0451495112

"The Intoxicated Years" was published in Granta. [2] "Spiderweb" appeared in The New Yorker.[3]

Contents

Story
"The Dirty Kid"
"The Inn"
"The Intoxicated Years"
"Adela's House"
"An Invocation of the Big-Eared Runt
"Spiderweb"
"End of Term"
"No Flesh Over Our Bones"
"The Neighbor's Courtyard"
"Under the Black Water"
"Green Red Orange"
"Things We Lost in the Fire"

Literary significance and reception

Reviews of the collection highlighted Enriquez's dark and haunting style. A review in The Guardian called the collection "gruesome, violent, upsetting – and bright with brilliance."[4] Jennifer Szalai, writing in The New York Times, wrote "[Enriquez] is after a truth more profound, and more disturbing, than whatever the strict dictates of realism will allow."[5]

In a review in Vanity Fair, Sloane Crosley was impressed by Enriquez's skill at using supernatural stories to explore Argentina's political turmoil: "In her hands, the country’s inequality, beauty, and corruption tangle together to become a manifestation of our own darkest thoughts and fears."[6]

References

  1. "Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  2. "The Intoxicated Years". Granta Magazine. 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  3. Enriquez, Mariana (2016-12-12). "Spiderweb". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  4. Self, John (2018-11-02). "Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez review – gruesome short stories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  5. Szalai, Jennifer (2017-03-03). "Argentine Fiction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  6. Nast, Condé. "Brooding Books for the Dark Days of Winter". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
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