Cuentos por escritoras hispanohablantes

Things We Lost in the Fire

Stories

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent. Read more

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Mara Brenner
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza.... Read more

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Stories

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

“"The Dangers of Smoking in Bed" by Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, revisits themes found in her 2017 collection "Things We Lost in the Fire." Her disquieting stories, populated by ghosts, disappeared adults and exploited children, examine economic pain, social unrest and violence through the lens... Read more

Los peligros de fumar en la cama

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Mara Brenner
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Doce cuentos en los que lo terrorífico se infiltra en lo cotidiano. Doce relatos perturbadores que llevan el género de terror a una nueva dimensión. Una niña desentierra en el jardín unos huesos que resultan no ser de un animal; la bucólica escena veraniega de unas chicas que se bañan en un paraje natural acaba convertida en un infierno de celos... Read more

Amores Que Matan

By: Rosa Beltran
Narrated by: Mariana Carreno
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Con inteligencia y un humor implacable, la escritora mexicana Rosa Beltran, va desgranando en este libro una serie de doce breves cuentos de amor. Es una sucesion perturbadora en la que la conciencia adquiere una dimension real y los impulsos mas secretos se presentan con toda su altanera desnudez: el amor conyugal, el amor por las letras, el... Read more

New and Selected Stories

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Stacey Glemboski, Kirsten Potter, Frankie Corzo, Jane Oppenheimer, Thom Rivera & various narrators
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza.“One of Mexico’s greatest living writers,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018, “we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” In... Read more