Seven Empty Houses

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3-time International Booker Prize finalist, “lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine

The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents.

In each story, twists & turns will unnerve & surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with...

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Megan McDowell is the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters & has been short- or longlisted four times for the International Booker Prize. She lives in Santiago, Chile.