Things We Lost in the Fire

Translated by Megan McDowell

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...