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Our Share of Night

A Novel

by Mariana Enriquez
Megan McDowell
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“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post
“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)
ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK
One of Reactor Magazine’s Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time” (Kazuo Ishiguro).
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Book Riot, PopSugar, The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, Tordotcom, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Commonweal, CrimeReads
“A magnificent accomplishment.”—Alan Moore, author of Watchmen
“A masterpiece of literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.”—Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.
For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?
Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”

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  • Release date

    February 7, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593663165
      • File size: 785876 KB
      • Duration: 27:17:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 14, 2022
      Enriquez (The Dangers of Smoking in Bed) twines sinister flights of occult imagination through the harsh realities of history in this decades-spanning masterpiece of literary horror. After Juan’s wife dies in 1981, a grieving Juan and his young son, Gaspar, embark on a road trip to her familial estate in Argentina, which Gaspar will inherit. The loss is made more fraught when Gaspar begins to manifest Juan’s ability to see and summon beings from the afterlife and beyond. Juan, a powerful but terminally ill medium, has long been in the grip of the Order, a cult controlled by his late wife’s family that strives for immortality while worshipping a mad and distant god. He knows that if Gaspar inherits his abilities, the cult will seize the boy to shape and use him for its own purposes. But if Gaspar hasn’t inherited, the Order plans to enact a ritual to keep Juan alive at the cost of Gaspar’s life. Juan launches a yearslong deception to save his son from the Order’s vampiric grasp, but the Order’s roots are far deeper than even Juan realizes—and its grip much harder to slither out of. Enriquez’s lush epic pulls no punches, probing the complex intimacies of familial bonds, the draw of darkness, and brutal Argentinian history. This unsettling gothic tale will leave readers shaken. Agent: María Lynch, Casanovas Lynch.

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from September 1, 2023

      Following her short story collection The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Enriquez presents a multigenerational tale of supernatural evil, translated into English and now available in audio. The story introduces the Order, an Argentinian cult that communes with an entity known as the Darkness. Juan Peterson is one of their most gifted mediums, able to summon the Darkness for the Order's nefarious ends. However, Juan realizes that the Order has its eye on his son Gaspar. Juan fears for his son, knowing what the Order is capable of and knowing too what he himself can wreak. At a whopping 27 hours, this novel isn't something to devour in a day or even a weekend. It spans generations, jumps to different points in time, swells with moments of beauty and creativity, and is full of characters, like the aforementioned father and son, who are intriguing to watch even as they make bad choices. Frankie Corzo's subdued narration adds a dreamlike quality to the story's mystical and realistic elements. VERDICT Set against the backdrop of Argentina's 1970s Dirty War and dripping with atmospheric horror, this novel will reward listeners' patience, revealing beauty among supernatural and all-too-human terrors.--James Gardner

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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