A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez’s A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina’s brutal past.

In this spellbinding new collection, Mariana Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal and the supernatural.

A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez's unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro calls her 'the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time.

"A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world... A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best" - Paul Tremblay

"One of Latin America's most exciting authors" - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"Enriquez's short stories had already made me a fan for life" - Kelly Link

Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.