- International Booker Prize 2021 · Shortlist · for the translation by Megan McDowell
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Los peligros de fumar en la cama
Mariana Enríquez (born 1973)
Translated by Megan McDowell
English editions
In EnglishThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Granta Books · United Kingdom · 3 February 2022 · Paperback · 208 pages
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Hogarth · United States · 12 January 2021 · Hardcover · 208 pages
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Hogarth · United States · 1 February 2022 · Paperback · 208 pages
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Old horror devices, ghosts, witches, séances, caves, visions and corpses that walk again, are set loose here among ordinary people. Bones found by a girl in her yard prove to belong to no animal. A summer afternoon of girls swimming in a lake turns into a poisonous rivalry. A homeless man scorned by a rich neighbourhood brings it bad luck, one young woman is aroused by diseased hearts, and a teenager who secretly records couples and women's shoes on the street gets an offer that alters his future. In Barcelona guilt closes every exit, a presence at a spa wants a victim, and fans of a rock star who died horribly pay him a homage nobody could have pictured.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 221 pages in the original
- First published
- 2009 by Emecé
- Author's age
- 36 when first published
- ISBN
9789500432122 (original)
9780593134078 (Hogarth, United States)
9780593134092 (Hogarth, United States)
9781783788217 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
- More
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