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“With an austere yet intense style, Samanta Schweblin unravels her characters’ dark psyches and the unheimlich quality of their intricate domesticity.” —@sputnikon3 https://t.co/OjmlSntgMZ
The New York Review of Books
5 months ago
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Strangers in the City | Julia Kornberg

In the short story 'Casa Tomada', two siblings in Buenos Aires are slowly forced out of their family home by mysterious noises.
The story explores the tension between the city's elites and the working class during a time of urbanization and social change.
The story serves as a possible inspiration for Samanta Schweblin's collection of short stories set in class-segregated Buenos Aires. [ more ]
The New York Review of Books
5 months ago
Books

Strangers in the City | Julia Kornberg

In the short story 'Casa Tomada', two siblings in Buenos Aires are slowly forced out of their family home by mysterious noises.
The story explores the tension between the city's elites and the working class during a time of urbanization and social change.
The story serves as a possible inspiration for Samanta Schweblin's collection of short stories set in class-segregated Buenos Aires. [ more ]
The New York Review of Books
5 months ago
Books

Strangers in the City | Julia Kornberg

"Casa Tomada" is a short story by Julio Cortázar that tells the story of siblings Irene and her brother who live in a house in Buenos Aires.
The story explores the changing dynamics of Buenos Aires in the 1940s and the disruption caused by the working class in the capital.
"Casa Tomada" serves as inspiration for Samanta Schweblin's collection of short stories, "Seven Empty Houses," which also take place in class-segregated Buenos Aires. [ more ]
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