Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin
Translated by Megan McDowell
28 August 2025Synopsis
The Global Bestseller from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Author of Fever Dream
A young mother steps into the water, determined to end her life. What will bring her back?
For a single moment, a baby is left unattended in a room of everyday dangers.
In a high-rise apartment block, in a city far from home, a ghost appears.
When a lonely woman acts on a kind impulse the consequences will be dark, bold and revelatory.
From the thrice International Booker nominated author of Fever Dream and Little Eyes come six perfect terrors to change your days and haunt your dreams.
Praise for Good and Evil and Other Stories:
‘Mesmerizing . . . powerfully evocative and unsettling’ - Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times
‘These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside’ - Colum McCann
‘A master of the uncanny’ - The New Yorker
‘Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled’ - Anne Enright
‘A fabulous writer. Her stories are subtle, always haunting and deeply human’ - Isabel Allende
‘You will find yourself in the space on the other side of terror – a space of openness, fragility and strange reassurance’ - The Guardian
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28 August 2025
9781035050192Reviews
Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled
Remarkably taut, clear, precise, and yet capable of capturing the extent of our human messiness, these stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside
I’ll be staying at home and reading lots over summer – several books by Samanta Schweblin; I recommend her Good and Evil and Other Stories. She is a fabulous writer. Her stories are subtle, always haunting and deeply human
Time and again in her masterful new collection, Schweblin creates characters whose lifelines reach some of the most extraordinary questions ever articulated in our literature
