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The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (Swedish)
Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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Twice Born by Margaret Mazzantini (Italian)
Translated by Ann Gagliardi
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Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad (Persian)
Translated by Franklin Lewis
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The Space Between Us by Zoya Pirzad (Persian)
Translated by Amy Motlagh
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang (Korean)
Translated by Chi-Young Kim
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Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini (Italian)
Translated by Ann Gagliardi
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A Perfect Crime by A Yi (Chinese)
Translated by Anna Holmwood
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The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (French)
Translated by John Cullen
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Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
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Masha Regina by Vadim Levental (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
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French Concession by Xiao Bai (Chinese)
Translated by Chenxin Jiang
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The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gómez Bárcena (Spanish)
Translated by Andrea Rosenberg
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Umami by Laia Jufresa (Spanish)
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The Hermit by Thomas Rydahl (Danish)
Translated by K. E. Semmel
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The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault (French)
Translated by Liedewy Hawke
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Three Envelopes by Nir Hezroni (Hebrew)
Translated by Steven Cohen
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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish)
Translated by Megan McDowell
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The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha (Brazilian Portuguese)
Translated by Eric M. B. Becker
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The Temptation to Be Happy by Lorenzo Marone (Italian)
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
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Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (Japanese)
Translated by Alison Watts
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They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen (Finnish)
Translated by Kristian London
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The Tiger and the Acrobat by Susanna Tamaro (Italian)
Translated by Nicoleugenia Prezzavento and Vicki Satlow
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The Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason (Icelandic)
Translated by Brian FitzGibbon
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Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Arabic)
Translated by Jonathan Wright
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Back Up by Paul Colize (French)
Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie
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Damnation by Peter Beck (German)
Translated by Jamie Bulloch
Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt (Finnish)
Translated by Owen Witesman
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The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi (Arabic)
Translated by Luke Leafgren
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The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
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Lala by Jacek Dehnel (Polish)
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Bogotá 39: New Voices from Latin America
(Spanish and Portuguese) Short story anthology
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Last Instructions by Nir Hezroni (Hebrew)
Translated by Steven Cohen
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Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
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In/Half by Jasmin B. Frelih (Slovenian)
Translated by Jason Blake
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What Hell Is Not by Alessandro D’Avenia (Italian)
Translated by Jeremy Parzen
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Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
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Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish)
Translated by Megan McDowell
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City of Jasmine by Olga Grjasnowa (German)
Translated by Katy Derbyshire
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Things that Fall from the Sky by Selja Ahava (Finnish)
Translated by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah
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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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In the Shadow of Wolves by Alvydas Šlepikas (Lithuanian)
Translated by Romas Kïnka
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Humiliation by Paulina Flores (Spanish)
Translated by Megan McDowell
SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize and a Man Booker International Prize longlisting for Mouthful of Birds (Oneworld, 2019). Her debut novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
MEGAN McDOWELL has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors, and her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s and The Paris Review. She lives in Chile.
A Oneworld Book
First published in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2020
This ebook edition published 2020
Originally published in Spanish, and in a slightly different form, as Kentukis by Literatura Random House, Barcelona in 2018
Published by arrangement with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Copyright © 2018, 2020 by Samanta Schweblin
English translation copyright © 2020 by Megan McDowell
The moral right of Samanta Schweblin to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved
Copyright under Berne Convention
A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-78607-792-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-78607-794-3 (trade paperback)
eISBN 978-1-78607-793-6
This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Excerpt from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in Great Britain in 2017 by Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group. Used by permission of the Orion Publishing Group.
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