2024/003: Our Share of Night — Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

2024/003: Our Share of Night — Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

'There are parts of a lot of people here.' It wasn’t Adela who had said that, though someone had used her voice. Who was speaking through her? [p. 297]

This is a long and extraordinarily dense novel, sometimes rambling, sometimes horribly precise and specific: but at the heart is the relationship between Juan and his son Gaspar. Juan is a medium, the only person who can manifest the entity known as the Darkness. ( Read more... )