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A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection. Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications, leaving your pulse racing, and the line between the real and the strange blur.

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin’s tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child’s first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents.

Samanta Schweblin ha creado un universo fascinante, un mundo donde no sabemos quién nos mira y en el que podemos ser amos o mascotas. ¿Qué sucedería si personas de cualquier lugar del planeta pudieran meterse en la vida de otras? ¿A través de qué dispositivo lo harían? ¿Hasta dónde podría llegar la creatividad humana para sacar provecho de esta situación? Cada uno de los personajes de esta novela encarna el costado más escalofriante de la tecnología.

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable.

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale.

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes a hotly anticipated new collection of eerie short stories. Playful and unsettling, teeming with the energy of barely contained violence, Seven Empty Houses dismantles the neat appearance of domesticity to expose the darkness and discomfort that lies beneath.

The characters in Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls but they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures, but what if it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? Schweblin has created a dark and complex world that is both familiar but also strangely unsettling, because it's our present and we're living it - we just don't know it yet.

Je to sen, realita, horor, blouznění v horečce nebo noční můra? Amanda leží na nemocničním lůžku a hledá bod zlomu, okamžik, kdy jedním banálním krokem odbočila z cesty a směřuje k nevyhnutelné katastrofě. Společnost jí dělá chlapec David, který jí svými otázkami pomáhá rekonstruovat, co se přihodilo s její dcerou Ninou a proč se Amandou tolik střežená záchranná vzdálenost prolomila. Při hledání toho momentu trvá nekompromisně na detailech a nutí Amandu přehrát si každý detail toho léta na odlehlém argentinském venkově.

De er overalt. De er her. De er os. De har infiltreret hjem i Hong Kong, butikker i Vancouver, gaderne i Sierra Leone, torve i Oaxaca, skoler i Tel Aviv, soveværelser i Indiana. De er ikke kæledyr eller spøgelser eller robotter. De er rigtige mennesker, men hvordan kan en person, der bor i Berlin, gå frit gennem stuen hos nogen i Sydney? Hvordan kan nogen i Bangkok spise morgenmad med dine børn i Buenos Aires, uden at du ved det? Især når disse mennesker er helt anonyme, ukendte, ikke sporbare.

I Redningsafstand befinder vi os i en argentinsk flække langt fra byerne. Her løber en forgiftet bæk. Her ligger en fabrik, som tager imod lastbiler fulde af store dunke. Sygeplejersken behandler det meste med håndkøbsmedicin. Hvis der sker noget alvorligt, konsulterer man kvinden i det grønne hus. Og så er der ormene. Det er et miljø, hvor man ikke tager øjnene fra sit barn. Nogle gange har man bare ikke øjne nok, som det hedder i anslaget. Redningsafstand er en gysende intens, foruroligende og enkel roman for to stemmer, der befinder sig i en slags tomrum.

Kafka møder Brødrene Grimm i argentinske Samanta Schweblins "Fugle i munden". Det er fortællinger, som med humor og suggestiv kraft bevæger sig på grænsen mellem realisme, gys og magisk realisme. En bog, der udvider feltet for, hvad litteraturen kan, og som i samme hug undersøger relationer mellem mennesker og mellem mennesker og natur. Samanta Schweblin første roman, "Redningsafstand" (da. 2017), var nomineret til the Man Booker International Prize.