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Our Share of Night

(2022)
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Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a powerful medium who can open locked doors, commune with the dead, and possess the ancient forces of the Darkness.

Now father and son are in flight, hunted by the Order, a group of wealthy acolytes who seek to harness the Darkness, no matter the cost. Among them, Gaspar's grandmother, whose twisted desires have already driven her to commit unspeakable acts.

Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar and Juan break free?

Spanning the brutal years of Argentina's military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath,
Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed land, inheritance, power, and the terrible sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.

Genre: Horror

Praise for this book

"I was positively bewitched by Our Share of Night. Towering, electric, wild - this novel is a masterpiece and a true original." - Laura van den Berg

"A singular, soul-rattling novel with urgent moral questions about greed, injustice, and inheritance at its core . . . I've never read anything like it, and I'll never forget my time in Enriquez's mesmerizing world." - Jessamine Chan

"Mariana Enriquez is a visionary. She conjures a brutal, voluptuous world where nothing is as it appears. I'm still looking over my shoulder." - Jennifer Haigh

"Our Share of Night is the kind of big book in which the reader becomes immersed, absorbed in the lives of its characters and their intertwined histories. Thrilling and engaging, it is a staggering accomplishment. Mariana Enriquez has written the novel that other novels will be compared to." - John Langan

"Reader, beware! Our Share of Night is a novel so disquieting, so unsettling that I could neither put it down nor read it late at night. Mariana 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." - Kelly Link

"Our Share of Night . . . artfully employing the vocabulary of supernatural horror as the one voice capable of articulating Argentina's unspeakable history. With realism in its magic and magic in its realism, this is a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power." - Alan Moore

"A masterful, unsettling novel from one of Latin America's most exciting authors." - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"Mariana 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." - Sergio de la Pava

"Our Share of Night is epic and intimate, lyrical and brutal, horrifying and defiantly hopeful . . . I'm going to press this book into the hands of everyone I know and dare them to open the door to its Other Place." - Paul Tremblay


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