Things We Lost in the Fire

by Mariana Enriquez

Megan McDowell (Translator)

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A woman returns to the rundown suburb of Buenos Aires her family once called home. From the safety of her window, she watches as a teenage prostitute raises her five-year-old son on the street. They sleep outside, surrounded by pimps and addicts, psychopaths and dealers, worshippers of the occult and corrupt police.

One day, the mother and the dirty kid are gone, and the dismembered body of a child is found in the neighbourhood. Is the murder part of a satanic ritual, or a gangland killing? Could it be the dirty kid, and if so, is his...Read more
  • ISBN10 1846276349
  • ISBN13 9781846276347
  • Publish Date 6 April 2017 (first published 21 February 2017)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 6 July 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Granta Books
  • Imprint Portobello Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Language English