To Bewitch a Hunter

"Proceed with caution because, as with many great books, not everything is entirely what it seems."--Samanta Schweblin, National Book Award-winning author of Seven Empty Houses

"An astonishing writer. . . . Each of his books is, for me, an event." --Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night

For fans of Pet Sematary and Tender is the Flesh, an award-winning novel from Argentina that begins when an adopted woman is approached by someone claiming to know what happened to her real parents--an encounter that triggers a hallucinatory odyssey into the dark years of dictatorship and a family history of disappearances and blood sacrifice.

"I know who you think you are, and I know who you truly are."

One day, while out walking the streets of Buenos Aires, Julia is stopped by a stranger who inexplicably knows everything about her. The stranger, an elegant older woman named Griselda, claims to be her grandmother--her real grandmother--and insists that Julia's parents are not in fact her true parents. For Julia, who has always felt out of place, what should be an earth-shattering revelation comes almost as a relief. Suddenly motivated to seek out the truth of her past, Julia uncovers a birthright that lays claim to her with a frightening grip. . . .

What follows is a terrifying odyssey into the dark years of the dictatorship that ruled Argentina and the story of the Lara family: the golden child Luis, his physician father Braulio, and the unforgettable Griselda--whose love and desperation drive them to trade their souls.

Beginning as a search for identity, To Bewitch a Hunter soon transforms into a monstrous excavation of a terror born in the Argentina of the 1960s and 1970s, only to continue to the present day. Julia's journey takes us into a territory of supernatural horror that echoes the bloody legacy of Argentina's history.