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Samanta Schweblin

Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

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August 2019, no. 413

Despite seven years of expatriate life in Germany, the Argentine Samanta Schweblin’s writerly gaze, like that of Australia’s Peter Carey or Janette Turner Hospital, remains trained upon her homeland: ‘I write from outside, literally and in a literary sense. But always looking toward Argentina.’ Schweblin acknowledges a debt to the fantastic ...

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