The International Bestseller ''Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled'' - Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren ''These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside'' - Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch. Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy is complicated by the inexplicable appearance of an injured horse; an attempted poisoning leads two writers to startling conclusions; a lonely woman''s charity is rewarded with home-invasion. And in the shocking opening story, a mother surfaces from the depths of the lake behind her house, where she saw something awful yet alluring. Guilt, grief and relationships severed permeate this mesmerizing collection - but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love and longing, each sinister and beautiful. Step by step these unnerving stories lure us into the shadows to confront the monsters of everyday life - ourselves. ''No one writes like Samanta Schweblin'' - Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home

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Samanta Schweblin won the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her story collection, Seven Empty Houses. Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and her novel Little Eyes and story collection Mouthful of Birds have been longlisted for the same prize. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages, and her stories have appeared in English in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s Magazine and elsewhere. Originally from Buenos Aires, Schweblin lives in Berlin. Good and Evil and Other Stories is her third collection. Megan McDowell is a translator from the United States of America, and has collaborated with authors including Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, and Samanta Schweblin. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Fiction, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize and the Kirkus Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently resides in Chile.

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The Global Bestseller from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Author of Fever Dream

A young mother steps into the water, determined to end her life. What will bring her back?

For a single moment, a baby is left unattended in a room of everyday dangers.

In a high-rise apartment block, in a city far from home, a ghost appears.

When a lonely woman acts on a kind impulse the consequences will be dark, bold and revelatory.

**From the thrice International Booker nominated author of Fever Dream and Little Eyes come six perfect terrors to change your days and haunt your dreams.

Praise for Good and Evil and Other Stories:**

'Mesmerizing . . . powerfully evocative and unsettling' - Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times
'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann
'A master of the uncanny' - The New Yorker
'Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled' - Anne Enright
'A fabulous writer. Her stories are subtle, always haunting and deeply human' - Isabel Allende
'You will find yourself in the space on the other side of terror - a space of openness, fragility and strange reassurance' - The Guardian