![]() ![]() Publisher: New Directions Date of Addition: 11/20/18 Copyrighted By: Amparo Davila. After reading The Houseguest-Dávila’s debut collection in English-you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.Ĭopyright: 2018 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9780811228220 Related ISBNs: ![]() 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. 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. I find her writing and subject matter highly reminiscent of Shirley Jackson's and wholeheartedly recommend this collection to her fans. ![]() The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Amparo Davila's stories translated and collected in The Houseguest are full of strangeness and darkness and melancholy. ![]()
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