Seven Empty Houses

A brand new collection from the master of the spinetingling tale.

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.' -O, the Oprah magazine

The world of Samanta Schweblin's short stories is dark and destabilising. Here, home is not a place of safety but the site of hidden danger, silent menace, unspoken resentment. Picture-perfect doors and spotless windows conceal lives in disarray, slowly unraveling in the face of obsession and fear, jealousy and desire.

Unsettling, exhilarating and fiercely original, these prizewinning stories expose raw and uncomfortable truths about the people and places we think will keep us safe, and ask what happens when that promise proves empty.

'Darker and more tinged with terror than her breakthrough novel, Fever Dream, this is Schweblin at her sharpest and most ferocious.' New York Times Book Review

SALES POINTS

Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2022.

Samanta Schweblin's UK sales have exceeded 40,000 copies to date Fever Dream is now a major Netflix film, bringing renewed attention to her work Widely praised in major Spanish and Latin American media outlets; winner of most prestigious short-story prize in Spanish, the Ribera del Duero prize.

Fever Dream is now a major Netflix film, bringing renewed attention to her work Widely praised in major Spanish and Latin American media outlets; winner of most prestigious short-story prize in Spanish, the Ribera del Duero prize.

REVIEWS

'Both noirish and sinister, with violence broiling beneath the calm... Schweblin, at her best, has a knack for eeriness.'

'[Schweblin's] particular genius lies in the fact that there's something inherently savage and ungovernable about her work.'