People in the Room Louisa Campbell

People in the Room Louisa CampbellShortlisted for the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation A classic an uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, isolation, and voyeurism by a writer Borges loved only now in English translation A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street from her familys home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide, or as

goal-hangers

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watercolour

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