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Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell - 2023
By: Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 27 hrs and 17 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-07-23
Categories: Horror, Gothic, Latino American
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
“A masterpiece of literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time” (Kazuo Ishiguro).
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Elle, Electric Lit, Book Riot, BookPage, The Rumpus, World Literature Today, CrimeReads, Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly
“Monumental.”—The New York Times
“A magnificent accomplishment.”—Alan Moore
“One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.”—Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.
For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?
Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”
©2023 Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (P)2023 Random House Audio
Critic Reviews
“Our Share of Night conjures a poetry of dread, artfully employing the vocabulary of supernatural horror as the one voice capable of articulating Argentina’s unspeakable history. With realism in its magic and magic in its realism, this is a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power.”—Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
“A singular, soul-rattling novel with urgent moral questions about greed, injustice, and inheritance at its core . . . In Our Share of Night, the relentless quest for power is not just over a people and a country but earthly life itself. I’ve never read anything like it, and I’ll never forget my time in Enriquez’s mesmerizing world.”—Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers
“Mariana Enriquez is a visionary. Our Share of Night is like nothing I’ve ever read—a compulsive page-turner, a dark fantasy so grounded in sensation that it reads like realism. She conjures a brutal, voluptuous world where nothing is as it appears. I’m still looking over my shoulder.”—Jennifer Haigh, bestselling author of Mercy Street
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