Things We Lost in the Fire: Mariana Enriquez

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Here is a quick description and cover image of book Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories written by Mariana Enriquez which was published in February 10, 2016. At home, he resents how his wife transformed into a different person after the birth of their child.

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This ersatz-Fitzgerald mix of moralizing and mirror-looking (Jay McInerney shook and poured the shaker first) is very 80's—and in Tartt's strenuous version already seems dated, formulaic. Los relatos tienen su buena cantidad de palabras y yo, cuando se trata de compilaciones, prefiero los relatos breves. About those friendships so close, personal and intense that it's hard to separate yourself from the other person. De hecho, hay relatos que a la larga terminan siendo puramente realistas, PERO esto no significa que lo sobrenatural es ajeno, nunca pretende serlo: espíritus de víctimas de represión o de asesinos, típicas casas abandonadas, entidades místicas o cosas que ni siquiera se llegan a esclarecer si son o no son, son elementos recurrentes que atormentan estos personajes. She's visited by a girl from the Villa Moreno slum who tells her Emanuel, presumed drowned, actually crawled out of the heavily polluted Riachuelo river alive, but 'changed'.So there are multiple horrors here: mental illness; the anguish of not being seen or understood by someone who's supposed to love you; guilt; and the expected macabre twist – Paula sees a naked, filthy child chained up in the neighbour's courtyard, but when she tries to show Miguel, there's nothing to see. End of Term focuses on Marcela, a pupil attending the school of the narrator who describes her as ‘forgettable’ in pretty much every way, except her terrible fashion sense. Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken, these 12 tales present a gothic portrait of a country tilting uneasily away from the memory of horrific traumas, as new ones lurk around every corner. The threat of the military state is aptly hinted towards in Spiderweb, with the appearance of three boisterous soldiers who harass a waitress, and a disturbing story later told about the military building dead bodies into a bridge. Afterwards, you don't so much leave the tale as back away slowly, shaking your head, unable to forget what you've seen.

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She has published two novels, a collection of short stories as well as a collection of travel writings, Chicos que vuelven, and a novella. Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories ( Spanish: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego) is a short story collection by Mariana Enriquez, published in 2016 by the Editorial Anagrama.I say "eye-opening" because I never really took time to feel how masculine these old stories are until I read Enriquez's stories. No podía leer el libro de noche, tenía pesadillas, sus imágenes se me quedaban grabadas en el cerebro y sus palabras me susurraban la nuca poniéndome los pelos de punta. Issues quickly arise, however, when Marcela rips her own fingernails out in class, causing uproar and her notoriety to spread.