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Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin is the author of “ Seven Empty Houses ,” which received a 2022 National Book Award, and “ Good and Evil and Other Stories .”

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“A Visit from the Chief”
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Fiction by the Argentinean writer Samanta Schweblin, author of “Fever Dream”: She’d seen enough movies to know that this was the moment when she needed to brandish the gun and threaten the man.