The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (পেপারব্যাক)

This is a collection of ghost stories. Enríquez uses the conventions of gothic horror and the macabre to write these brilliantly strange parables about the modern world. Her settings are detailed and concrete and realistic, mainly in Buenos Aires—she’s an Argentinian writer. She takes us into those settings, and we smell the smells, hear the roar of the traffic, see the streetlife. All the energy and human variety and dirt—lots of dirt—but with it a seductiveness and a kind of sexy vitality.