The Houseguest - and Other Stories

Amparo Dávila

W. W. Norton & Company

2019

144 páginas

4h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780811228213

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.

Resenhas (4)

4.5 (Muito bom)

Solidão e desespero! 😨

Os contos do livro são muito bem escritos e desenvolvidas, você fica sem saber o que aconteceu antes dos fatos narrados e as consequências do final do capítulo. todas as histórias tratam de medo e ansiedade, de coisas reais e fictícias, possíveis e impossíveis que assombram a mente dos personagens, o que leva ao desespero total! muito bom