Samanta Schweblin is a magician. With an irresistible pull, her stories show the cracks in everyday life that reveal the subconscious chasms below. A woman on her deathbed calls a friend she has not spoken to since a tragic accident thirty years earlier. A mother is consumed by a single, insistent desire: to abandon her husband and children, and spend the rest of her life underwater. A voiceless boy performs desperately to gain his father’s attention. «These stories are powerfully evocative and unsettling. They seem to hover, indeed like fever dreams, between the reassuring familiarities of domestic life and the stark, unpredictable, visionary flights of the unconscious.» (Joyce Carol Oates, The NewYork Times Book Review)

The discussion will be in Spanish with a German translation.