Books Details
Author : Mariana EnrÃquez Pages : 208 pages Publisher : Vintage Espanol Language :
spa ISBN-10 : 052543254X ISBN-13 : 9780525432548
Books Descriptions
A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called
home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her
five-year-old son on the street. They sleep outside, surrounded by pimps and addicts,
psychopaths and dealers, worshippers of the occult and corrupt police. One day, the
mother and the dirty kid are gone, and the dismembered body of a child is found in
the neighbourhood. Is the murder part of a satanic ritual, or a gangland killing? Could
it be the dirty kid, and if so, is his mother a victim too; or an accomplice; or his
killer?Thrilling and terrifying, The Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a
world of Argentine Gothic: of sharp-toothed children; of women racked by desire; of
demons who lurk beneath the river; of stolen skulls and secrets half-buried under
Argentina's terrible dictatorship; of men imprisoned in their marriages, whose only
path out lies in the flames.
