{"product_id":"the-dangers-of-smoking-in-bed-stories-paperback","title":"The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMariana Enriquez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in \u003ci\u003eThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed, \u003c\/i\u003e with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time.\"--Kazuo Ishiguro, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e EDITORS' CHOICE -\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFINALIST: Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Prize, Kirkus Prize - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily, \u003c\/i\u003e New York Public Library, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElectric Lit, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her new collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken--fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history--with bracing urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death when it fails to respond correctly to a moral dilemma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with a resounding tenderness toward those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, \u003ci\u003eThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed\u003c\/i\u003e is Mariana Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMariana Enriquez\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. She has published two story collections in English, \u003ci\u003eThings We Lost in the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dangers of Smoking in Bed, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy \u0026amp; Speculative Fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kirkus Prize (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987968983341,"sku":"9780593134092","price":18.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/cmhqQnJ1SG9HeitFRkhyMjc0bHdiZz09.webp?v=1776188480","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-dangers-of-smoking-in-bed-stories-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}