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The Global Bestseller from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Author of Fever Dream

CONFRONT THE DARKNESS

‘A fabulous writer. Her stories are subtle, always haunting and deeply human’ – Isabel Allende

A young mother steps into the water, determined to end her life. What will bring her back?

‘You will find yourself in the space on the other side of terror – a space of openness, fragility and strange reassurance’ – The Guardian

For a single moment, a baby is left unattended in a room of everyday dangers.

‘Just stellar – Extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled’ – Anne Enright

In a high-rise apartment block, in a city far from home, a ghost appears.

‘A master of the uncanny’ – The New Yorker

When a lonely woman acts on a kind impulse the consequences will be dark, bold and revelatory.

‘These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside’ – Colum McCann

From the thrice International Booker nominated author of Fever Dream and Little Eyes come six perfect terrors to change your days and haunt your dreams.

‘Mesmerizing . . . powerfully evocative and unsettling’ – Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times

Publisher Review

Just stellar – extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled — Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren Remarkably taut, clear, precise, and yet capable of capturing the extent of our human messiness, these stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside — Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ”I’ll be staying at home and reading lots over summer – several books by Samanta Schweblin; I recommend her Good and Evil and Other Stories. She is a fabulous writer. Her stories are subtle, always haunting and deeply human’ — Isabel Allende, author of The Wind Knows My Name ‘Time and again in her masterful new collection, Schweblin creates characters whose lifelines reach some of the most extraordinary questions ever articulated in our literature’ — Karen Russell, author of The Antidote No one writes like Samanta Schweblin. Her narratives are sui generis – wonderfully unpredictable and invitingly strange — Lorrie Moore, author of I am Homeless if This Is Not My Home Samanta Schweblin combines the urgent propulsion that characterizes all great storytelling with precise, if uncanny, descriptions of human feelings that often go unnamed, those ambiguous zones of human reality where awe, dread, and desire mingle — Siri Hustvedt, author of Memories of the Future These stories understand the secret moments and strange connections that resonate through a person’s life – and they explore these intimacies with a razor sharp edge. Samantha Schweblin is at the top of her game — Heather Parry, author of Carrion Crow These beautifully crafted and eerily unsettling stories completely hypnotised me. This is the sort of storytelling which resonates in the head, the heart and all mysterious parts in between. I wish I could write like this — Jan Carson, author of The Raptures ‘The book I wish I had written’ — Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream ‘Read this in a single sitting and by the end I could hardly breathe. It’s a total mind-wrecker. Amazing. Thrilling’ — Max Porter on Fever Dream ‘The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin’s darkly humorous tales of people who have slipped through cracks or fallen down holes into alternate realities’ — J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winning author of Disgrace, on Mouthful of Birds ‘Schweblin has a true talent for getting to the centre of our fears and drawing them out’ — Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters, on Little Eyes ‘Schweblin’s particular genius lies in the fact that there’s something inherently savage and ungovernable about her work’ — Financial Times, on Seven Empty Houses ‘Schweblin’s imagination seemingly knows no bounds’ — Vanity Fair on Mouthful of Birds ‘A master of elegant and uncanny fiction . . . she can evoke more feelings in one sentence than many writers can in a whole story . . . a writer whose potential is beginning to seem limitless’ — NPR on Mouthful of Birds ‘Strange and beautiful’ — Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars, on Mouthful of Birds ‘Genius’ — Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror, on Fever Dream ‘Sickeningly good’ — Emma Cline, author of The Guest, on Fever Dream ‘Schweblin delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense’ — The Economist, on Fever Dream