The spellbinding graphic adaptation of four stories from Mariana Enriquez’s modern horror classic Things We Lost in the Fire
Electric, disturbing, and wholly original, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation’s troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, and superstitions, there is also friendship, compassion, humor, and love.
Celebrated artist Lucas Nine transforms Enriquez’s unique blend of literary horror into a mesmerizing graphic adaptation of four of her “phenomenal” (Vanity Fair) stories. Featuring more than 100 pages of full-color illustrations, this edition maintains the suspense and psychological terror of Enriquez’s fiction, while adding new layers of visual meaning and immediacy to her “propulsive and mesmerizing” (New York Times) tales.
Praise for Mariana Enriquez
“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez . . . is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro
“One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.”—Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“Horror’s found its master.”—Joy Williams
“[I’m] a fan for life.”—Kelly Link
“A mesmerizing writer who demands to be read . . . Like Roberto Bolaño, she is interested matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the force of a freight train.”—Dave Eggers
“Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enriquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.”—The Star Tribune
Mariana Enriquez is a writer based in Buenos Aires. She has published in English the essay collection Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave, the novel Our Share of Night, and three story collections, A Sunny Place for Shady People, Things We Lost in the Fire, and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.
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Lucas Nine, born in 1975, is an Argentine artist: illustrator, graphic novel author, director of animated films, and playwright. His graphic novels are mainly published in France, Spain, and Argentina. His work has received numerous awards and has been exhibited or screened worldwide. His works as a graphic novelist include “Borges, Poultry Inspector” (a satire based on a true episode in the writer’s life) and the diptych “Delicatessen”-“La Peur Émeraude” (a fantasy tale set in Belle Époque Paris), among many others. He lives in Buenos Aires.
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The spellbinding graphic adaptation of four stories from Mariana Enriquez’s modern horror classic Things We Lost in the Fire
Electric, disturbing, and wholly original, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation’s troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, and superstitions, there is also friendship, compassion, humor, and love.
Celebrated artist Lucas Nine transforms Enriquez’s unique blend of literary horror into a mesmerizing graphic adaptation of four of her “phenomenal” (Vanity Fair) stories. Featuring more than 100 pages of full-color illustrations, this edition maintains the suspense and psychological terror of Enriquez’s fiction, while adding new layers of visual meaning and immediacy to her “propulsive and mesmerizing” (New York Times) tales.
Praise
Praise for Mariana Enriquez
“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez . . . is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro
“One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.”—Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“Horror’s found its master.”—Joy Williams
“[I’m] a fan for life.”—Kelly Link
“A mesmerizing writer who demands to be read . . . Like Roberto Bolaño, she is interested matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the force of a freight train.”—Dave Eggers
“Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enriquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.”—The Star Tribune
Mariana Enriquez is a writer based in Buenos Aires. She has published in English the essay collection Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave, the novel Our Share of Night, and three story collections, A Sunny Place for Shady People, Things We Lost in the Fire, and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.
View titles by Mariana Enriquez
Lucas Nine, born in 1975, is an Argentine artist: illustrator, graphic novel author, director of animated films, and playwright. His graphic novels are mainly published in France, Spain, and Argentina. His work has received numerous awards and has been exhibited or screened worldwide. His works as a graphic novelist include “Borges, Poultry Inspector” (a satire based on a true episode in the writer’s life) and the diptych “Delicatessen”-“La Peur Émeraude” (a fantasy tale set in Belle Époque Paris), among many others. He lives in Buenos Aires.
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