A Sunny Place for Shady People

Superb... a collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
Mariana Enriquez [is] one of the best modern practitioners of the form... It is Enriquez's great gift that she can make stories with ugly subject matter so addictive and full of life... Unsettling * Observer *
At her best, Enriquez has an unrivalled instinct for the subtly appalling image, a Lynchian (David, not Paul) sense of how horror inheres within the benign... Enriquez... is pretty much unbeatable * Guardian *
This collection has raised the stakes for everybody in the [horror] genre to an entirely new level... enticing... deeply unsettling, darkly humorous and, like all good horror movies and books, you can't look away - even for a second * NB magazine *
Superb... A collection of enthralling and sinister stories from one of Latin America's brightest stars * Telegraph *
'A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world... A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best' -- Paul Tremblay
Seductively gothic... [Enriquez] is at the height of her powers... at her fiercest, she sets down morbid manifestations of misogyny and female desire, rooted by a scythe-sharp, bone-dry humour... this might be her most untrammelled-and certainly her most unwavering-collection yet * Prospect magazine *
'One of Latin America's most exciting authors' -- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
'Enriquez's short stories had already made me a fan for life' -- Kelly Link
'In Enriquez's fiction, blood isn't spattered off screen. It's splurged all over the picture' -- Adam Thirlwell
'A mesmerising writer who demands to be read... Her fiction hits with the force of a freight train' -- Dave Eggers
Bleak and often brutal horror * SFX magazine *
Terse and graphic ... an engaging view of inter-generational trauma and what happens to pain after death * PA Media (syndicated review) *
At their best these stories superimpose supernational tension on ungovernable emotions * Daily Mail *
Skin-crawling unease and psychological discomfort... striking... it offers a weighty read about the shadows that haunt humanity * Straits Times *