Mariana Enriquez is back with a dozen stories in which what's scary is the body and everything we don't know or don't see. Poverty, lack of interest in others, machismo, violence, oppression, fascism are tensions on which the stories of A Sunny Place for Dark People rest.
The uniqueness of this Argentine, born in 1973 and who continues editing the pages of a Sunday supplement as if none of the above were real, is that she is aware that the most terrible thing does not come from the world of the dead but is right here. The first batch of his new book has been on the streets for a month and has accumulated seven editions in the world. The Latin American authors who look at those numbers are counted on the fingers of half a hand. So, when she sat down to give shape to these twelve stories, the trail of death and fear that she left behind was a watershed. She did not write during the months of confinement. She could barely think.