Marina Yuszczuk

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” —The New York Times Book Review It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with humans, and attempts to be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship to motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites inside the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thirst plays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures. “Channeling Carmen Maria Machado and Anne Rice, Yuszczuk reimagines the vampire novel, with a distinctly Latin American feminist Gothic twist.” —The Millions

A Novel

Thirst

LIMEKI 

No me engañaba la calma. Me estaba moviendo sobre un terreno pantanoso, y por primera vez no hacía esfuerzos desesperados por eso que llamaban sentirse bien, o por que las cosas volvieran a ser como antes. ¿Esto era madurar, o era todo lo contrario?

Clara Gauthier

Only the flesh knows horror; bones, once clean, might as well be fossils, pieces of wood, curiosities. It’s flesh that has been keeping me up at night. 

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