Description
Set in Buenos Aires, this unsettling collection turns everyday life into a hall of mirrors, where sex, psychoanalysis, and the language of masks blur the line between private desire and public dread. Through stories that refuse conventional realism, irrational violence and oppressive political reality seep into ordinary routines, transforming perception itself into a battleground. Valenzuela’s sharp, experimental style—part psychological inquiry, part allegory—invites readers to question what is being hidden, who is watching, and how power reshapes the self. Strange Things Happen Here is a darkly imaginative exploration of identity under pressure, where the mind’s distortions and the city’s silences reveal the cost of living in fear.
Available Editions
paperback
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published Jan 1, 1979
220 pages
ISBN: 0151857822
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Details
First Published
1979
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Strange Things Happen Here by Luisa Valenzuela.