Samanta Schweblin won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection, Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into over forty languages, and her work has appeared in English in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin.
Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have won the National Book Award, the O. Henry Prize, the English PEN award and the Premio Valle-Inclán, and been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She lives in Chile.
‘A shifting, unstable fantasia inspired by fears about GM and
environmental degradation’ Guardian
'Read this in a single sitting and by the end I could hardly
breathe. It's a total mind-wrecker. Amazing. Thrilling.' Max
Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
‘A book to read in one frantic sitting – bold, uncanny and utterly
gripping.’ Observer, Best Fiction of 2017
‘An unnerving read, straddling the realms of the supernatural and
of Argentina’s dark recent history.’ Financial Times, Best
Books of 2017
‘Each layer is soaked in dread, and the dread goes so deep that it
works even on the third reading.’ London Review of Books
‘This daring, ambiguous thriller is an apocalyptic lamentation for
our world in free fall, a place in which nothing and no one, not
even a child or a horse in a field, is safe.’ Irish Times
'Magnificent.' i newspaper
'Explosive...delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and
suspense.' Economist
'Terrifying and brilliant...Dangerously addictive.' Chris Power,
Guardian
'Exceptionally written...a superlative work of the imagination,
resonant, beguiling and truly memorable.' Spectator
‘Punches far above its weight…The sort of book that makes you look
under the bed last thing at night and sleep with the light
on.’ Daily Mail
‘Impossible to put down even while it forces you to cower under the
sheets, queasy with unnameable fear.’ Metro
‘Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever
Dream.’ Vanity Fair
‘Dazzling, unforgettable, and deeply strange. I’ve never read
anything like it.’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year
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