Dark, delirious and disturbing, the three books in acclaimed Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz’s ‘Involuntary Trilogy’ transport the reader into the depths of the French countryside, into the heart of a dysfunctional family, and into the deepest recesses of an unpredictable mind.

Die, My Love (tr. Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff, 2017), longlisted for the International Booker 2018, follows the mother of a young child as she descends into increasingly erratic behaviour, driven by her own lust and terror towards an inevitable breaking point. Feebleminded (tr. Annie McDermott & Carolina Orloff, 2019) explores an unusual mother-daughter relationship, as the two women oscillate between drunken escapades and lazing in the garden while the threat of violence seethes constantly beneath the surface. In Tender (tr. Annie McDermott & Carolina Orloff, 2022), this menacing violence bursts forth in an unstoppable torrent of language, as a mother and her teenage son eschew bourgeois conventions and live ever more dangerously, ever more on the edges of society.

“Celebrating lust and bolshiness with an intensity worthy of Clarice Lispector.” Times Literary Supplement

“The thrill is in the human as animal, and even as parasite.” The New Yorker

“Unrestrained and unadorned, Harwicz’s writing has a wild beauty.” Kirkus