โVampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.โ
โThe New York Times Book Review
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It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europeโs bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with humans, and attempts to be discreet.
In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illnessย and her own relationship to motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites inside the two womenโand they cross a threshold from which thereโs no turning back.
With echoes of Mary Shelleyโs Frankenstein, Thirst plays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.
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โChannelingย Carmen Maria Machadoย andย Anne Rice, Yuszczuk reimagines the vampire novel, with a distinctly Latin American feminist Gothic twist.โ
โThe Millions
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