About the Book: Seven Empty Houses
The collection that established Samanta Schweblin at the forefront of her
literary generation, available in English for the first time.
The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a
truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in
Samanta Schweblins tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a
ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, or the
fallibility of parents.
Seven Empty Houses offers an entry point into a fiercely original mind, and a
slingshot into Schweblins destabilizing, exhilarating literary world. In each
story, the twists