5/29/2023 0 Comments The houseguest amparo![]() ![]() It introduces English speakers to an author long-acclaimed in Mexico for what one of her translators, Matthew Gleeson, describes as uncanny and fantastic works that “revolve around characters gripped by extreme states of mind, psyches stoked with an uncertain mix of imagination and fact” (“The Crying Cat”). ![]() It’s a set of scary stories, and a scary set of stories. It’s no coincidence that Amparo Dávila’s first collection of short stories to appear in English, The Houseguest, was published in the month of October, when we commemorate the dead. ![]() “Ah, one learns when one has to one learns when one needs a way out one learns at all costs.” ![]()
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