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Strangers in the City
In Seven Empty Houses, the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin revives the rioplatense short story tradition, which was born at the turn of the century and reached a peak during the Latin American Boom.
Seven Empty Houses
by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
December 7, 2023 issue