Under House Arrest by Yevgeny Kharitonov

It isn’t until she sets out on the road to find her father that she finally meets one of her own kind. She ate the son of her mother’s boss during a party. She ate a boy who befriended her at summer camp. She devoured the kind babysitter who showed her affection, and things only got worse from there. Maren started eating people when she was a little kid. In DeAngelis’ ( Petty Magic, 2010, etc.) third novel, 16-year-old Maren is determined to track down her father after her mother, who clearly loves her but is scared for her own life, abandons her, leaving behind some money and the girl's birth certificate, which includes some important information: her father’s name. Love is challenging for any species-but things get more complicated when you’re a ghoul who wants to eat anyone who gets close to you. Much that's brilliant, some that's merely strange and fragmentary, and almost all enhanced by the translations of Gregory Rabassa and S.

And, from 1978's Innocent Erendira And Other Stories comes an uneven mix of mystical fable and diffuse surrealism (some pieces dating, before English translation, from the 1940s or '50s). Likewise, the long title piece from the Leaf Storm collection (1972)-also about a Colonel-is omitted but it does offer 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World' and other beguiling fantasies. But the collection's standout-its title novella-is not included here. From the 1968 collection No One Writes to the Colonel come stories of the town of Macondo-about the much-delayed funeral of local sovereign Big Mamma, a dentist's revenge on the corrupt Mayor (extraction sans anesthetic), a priest who sees the Devil, a thief who robs the pool hall of its billiard balls. Twenty-six tales by the 1982 Nobel Prize Winner, rearranged in roughly chronological order of writing.

Under House Arrest by Yevgeny Kharitonov