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An Argentinian allegory: Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez, reviewed

The Order, a sinister group reminiscent of Argentina’s 1970s junta, make human sacrifices to the Darkness in return for the promise of eternal life

12 November 2022

9:00 AM

12 November 2022

9:00 AM

Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Granta, pp.736, 18.99

‘In Argentina,’ Mariana Enriquez writes in Our Share of Night, ‘they toss bodies at you.’ It is an arresting, chilling image; one that Gaspar, the central character, experiences both literally and figuratively. Bodies are everywhere in this novel – whether dead, undead, dying or decomposing, at swim or making love – and what they feel and what they can know is the intellectual dynamic that underpins plotlines familiar from the work of Stephen King, the films of Guillermo del Toro and the horror drama Stranger Things.

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