Seven Empty Houses
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About This Novel
A girl follows her mother on a journey to invade a stranger's space; a man hides from the police the fact that his parents and children are naked and hiding in the garden; a woman helps a neighbor collect the clothes of his dead only son... The seven stories in "Seven Empty Houses" come from the literary traditions of Kafka, Cortázar and Carver, and reach the real world from the strange dark side of fantasy. Absurd plots full of playful spirit, suspenseful atmosphere, wandering characters and deviant behaviors, alienated spaces where lonely people get lost... Schweblin always starts from the most familiar place under the sun, and then magically transports us to the depths of the nightmare. There is no such thing as mediocre daily life in her works: life always shows its cards in those unforeseen moments, and anything can happen.
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