Author: Mariana Enriquez
Translator: Megan McDowell
Publisher: Granta
Hardback
Staff Pick! Ant says...
In this sprawling epic of weird fiction and dark fantasy Mariana Enriquez steps away from the distilled excellence of her short stories (What We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed) to tell the story of Juan and Gaspar, a father and son on the run in Argentina from an organization called the Order. The novel shows how the Argentinian population has lived in fear at the hand of the ruling dicatorship’s cruelty and torture, the Order has fed off this fear to snatch and torture victims to feed the Darkness, a force only its members can tap into and control. Juan is desperate for his son to escape the Order’s clutches and be relieved of their dangerous powers before he dies from a heart condition. Between the forests, caves and cities of Argentina, to acid-fuelled psychedelic 60s London and into other worlds beyond ours, Our Share of Night blends folklore, politics and fantasy to follow father and son on their quest to be free from the clutches of evil by any means necessary.