Good and Evil and Other Stories

The International Bestseller?No one writes like Samanta Schweblin? ?Lorrie Moore'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCannThe strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story.A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly, exquisitely wound, ready to snap at a touch. Here, a young father is haunted by the consequences of a moment of distraction; tragedy is complicated by the inexplicable appearance of an injured horse; an attempted poisoning leads two writers to startling conclusions; a lonely woman?s charity is rewarded with home-invasion. And in the shocking opening story, a mother surfaces from the depths of the lake behind her house, where she saw something awful yet alluring. Guilt, grief and relationships severed permeate this mesmerizing collection ? but so do unspeakable bonds of family, love and longing,