Mariana Enriquez

We are delighted to welcome the hugely talented Mariana Enriquez, to celebrate her new novel, Our Share of Night, which, in the words of one reviewer, "is going to haunt me for the rest of my life". See for yourself how engaging Mariana's writing is, at Greenside Church this Autumn.

Mariana Enriquez is an Argentine writer whose work has been translated into over twenty languages. Her work is highly praised, not least by our fiction booksellers: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and Our Share of Night has received the Premio Herralde de Novela, a literary award for Spanish-language fiction.

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His 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.

Author photo: Ariel Grinburg.