Cover art for Things We Lost in the Fire
Published
Portobello Books, January 2019
ISBN
9781846276361
Format
Softcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.2cm

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Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies in the flames...

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