![]() Schweblin skilfully directs our unease until it mirrors that of her protagonist’s. Schweblin’s characters are often unsettled by their home environment or envious of others’ domesticity She is suspicious of the pair and dislikes it when her husband befriends the boy. They trigger memories of Lola’s dead son who “had not grown any taller than the kitchen cabinets”. Her ordered existence – facilitated by her longsuffering husband of 57 years – is disrupted when a single woman and her young son move in next door. Lola is sick and her memory is failing: “she wanted to die, but every morning, inevitably, she woke up again”. The most striking of the seven tales, Breath from the Depths, is also the longest. Her latest collection (published in Spanish in 2015 and meticulously translated by Megan McDowell) focuses on the domestic in disarray. ![]() Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin is perhaps best known for her novel Fever Dream, adapted for Netflix in 2021, but her short stories are equally celebrated. ![]()
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