Samanta Schweblin

"A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're...

"La lista era parte de un plan: Lola sospechaba que su vida había sido demasiado larga, tan simple y liviana que ahora carecía del peso suficiente para desaparecer. Había concluido, al analizar la experiencia de algunos conocidos, que incluso en la vejez la muerte necesitaba de un golpe final. Un empujón emocional, o físico. Y ella no podía darle a su cuerpo nada de eso. Quería morirse, pero todas las mañanas, inevitablemente, volvía a despertarse". Así...

Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring. In the tradition of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor, Schweblin's stories move on the boundary between the real and the fantastic. This selection, chosen by the author, is an indispensible piece of contemporary Argentine literature.

The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.