Mariana Enriquez’s highly acclaimed novel Our Share of Night is a rich, lengthy, family saga, horror story about a young man and his inheritance: an estate, a cult, and a magical strength all his own. Set in Argentina from the 1960s to the late 1990s, just before, during, and after military dictatorship, Enriquez’s sweeping novel is a dedication to disappeared people and the violence they face, wrapped around the story of a family and the terrifying God they worship.
Read MoreMiklós Vámos's most recent novel The Book of Fathers is a family saga stretching across 300 years of Hungarian history. Each chapter contains the life and death of the first-born son of each generation of the Csillag family beginning in 1702 and ending in 1996. The book's images, like the one above, are what tie the threads of life, death, Judaism, revolution, parenthood, and time itself together, forming bridges that span consciousness and chill the blood with disturbing and poetic repetition.
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