Seven empty houses

The houses are seven and they are empty. The narrator, according to Rodrigo Frezán, is "a sensible world thinking about the mad, or people who seriously think about going crazy." And the mind, as always, is superficial. Samantha Shueblin draws us into Siete casas vacías, and around them, her characters are pushed to explore daily horror, to analyze their fears and others' fears, and to put on the table the biases of those who, between alienation and "normal life," are shaken, thinking about others and reflecting on themselves. Shueblin's sharp and precise prose, her ability to create dense and disturbing atmospheres, and the shocking array of sensations passing through her stories made this book worthy of the Ribera del Duro International Short Story Award.