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By (author) Enriquez Mariana; Translated by McDowell, Megan

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A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve – from cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed”…one of the best novels of the 21st century” -Paul Tremblay”…a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power” – Alan MooreHis father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him.For years, they have exploited his father”s ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina”s military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.

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A gorgeous, dazzling novel… Startlingly brilliant… An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.

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A masterpiece of supernatural horror… Our Share of Night is a literary achievement, gorgeous and exacting in its execution

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With realism in its magic and magic in its realism, this is a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power.

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A gothic horror epic… Has the makings of a cult read

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Very dark, very powerful, very compelling… An extraordinary thing

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A novel so disquieting, so unsettling I could neither put it down, nor read it late at night. Enriquez”s short stories had already made me a fan for life – her novel is going to haunt me for the rest of my life

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Dazzling… Towering, electric, wild – this novel is a masterpiece and a true original.

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Thrilling and engaging, it is a staggering accomplishment. Mariana Enriquez has written the novel that other novels will be compared to

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Binds together the terror of Stephen King with the history and aftermath of Argentina”s military dictatorship which saw thousands “disappeared”… This horror is a must-read

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Compelling… unlike most Gothic fictions, this book is truly frightening

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Epic and intimate, lyrical and brutal, horrifying and defiantly hopeful, and one of the best novels of the 21st century. I”m going to press this book into the hands of everyone I know

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A hugely ambitious, inventive and compelling work of modern fantasy

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Macabre and unsettling, some of the imagery is so horrific that it is hard to keep reading, yet the story so captivating it is impossible to stop… Lest this all sound too horrific, there is profound and enduring love here as well

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This is a literary work of huge significance… [A] fully unfurled psychic map of a country, the claustrophobia and inescapable horror of a haunted house story told over the length and breadth of a nation

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Enriquez is a masterful world builder. And the one she creates here devastates. This engrossing mixture of supernatural horror and intimate storytelling will leave an indelible but instructive mark on readers

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