Amparo Dávila

The Houseguest: And Other Stories -- Amparo Dávila, Paperback

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Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila's stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted--you'll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila 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--Dávila's debut collection in English--you'll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.

Author: Amparo Dávila
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780811228213

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/09/2018
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2018
Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 70

Product Tags:

Amparo Dávila, Fiction, Fiction - General, Literary, Mexican, New Directions Publishing Corporation, Paperback, Short stories, Short Stories (single author), Women

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