Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin
Translated by Megan McDowell
28 August 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘No one writes like Samanta Schweblin’ – Lorrie Moore
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 to snap at a touch.
Here, a young father is...
Details
28 August 2025192 pages
9781035050178Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
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
Samanta Schweblin combines the urgent propulsion that characterizes all great storytelling with precise, if uncanny, descriptions of human feelings that often go unnamed, those ambiguous zones of human reality where awe, dread, and desire mingleSiri Hustvedt, author of Memories of the Future
