Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin
Translated by Megan McDowell
28 August 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The International Bestseller
'Devastating' - Anne Enright
'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann
The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story.
A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready...
Details
28 August 2025192 pages
9781035050161Imprint: Picador
Reviews
DevastatingAnne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren
Remarkably taut, clear, precise, and yet capable of capturing the extent of our human messiness, these stories are perfect for the times we dwell insideColum McCann, author of Apeirogon
'Time and again in her masterful new collection, Schweblin creates characters whose lifelines reach some of the most extraordinary questions ever articulated in our literature'Karen Russell, author of The Antidote
No one writes like Samanta Schweblin. Her narratives are sui generis - wonderfully unpredictable and invitingly strangeLorrie Moore, author of I am Homeless if This Is Not My Home
