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Our Share of Night


Mariana Enriquez


Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a powerful medium who canopen locked doors, commune with the dead, and possess the ancient forces ofthe Darkness.

Now father and son are in flight, hunted by the Order, a group of wealthy acolytes who seek to harness the Darkness, no matter the cost. Among them,Gaspar's grandmother, whose twisted desires have already driven her to commit unspeakable acts.Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors,can Gaspar and Juan break free?

Spanning the brutal years of Argentina's military dictatorship and its turbulentaftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families,cursed land, inheritance, power, and the terrible sacrifices a father will maketo help his son escape his destiny.

'A singular, soul-rattling novel...I've never read anything like it' - Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers


'A novel so disquieting, so unsettling I could neither put it down, nor read it late at night.' - Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog and Get in Trouble

 

Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.

Megan McDowell has translated Alejandro Zambra and Samanta Schweblin, among other writers. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Category:  Contemporary Fiction
ISBN:  9781783789351
Publisher:  Granta Books
On sale:  November 2022
Format:  Paperback
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