Empty Houses - SALE

Empty Houses - SALE

9781911547686

Daniel disappeared three months, two days and eight hours after his birthday. He was three. He was my son.

Empty Houses unfolds in the aftermath of a child’s disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel, she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place?

In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, Empty Houses confronts the desires, regrets and social pressures of motherhood faced by both the mother who lost her child and the new one who risked everything to take him.

A literary sensation on its original publication, Empty Houses is a kaleidoscopic inquiry into contemporary Mexico and a provocative exploration of motherhood. It announces an intrepid and breathtaking new literary voice.

‘Gripping… A taut two-hander that examines motherhood through the prism of a child’s abduction.’ – Observer

‘Navarro’s descriptions of the toll of motherhood are strange, stark and original . . . a captivating debut from a writer to watch.’ – Irish Times

‘Tense, addictive, eye-opening.’ – i Paper

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Daunt Books

2021

Adult Fiction

Modern Fiction and Translated Fiction

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