El lugar donde mueren los pájaros brings together ten short stories by Tomás Downey, winner of the first prize at the Fondo Nacional de las Artes Letras Competition in 2013 and a finalist in 2016 for the Gabriel García Márquez Hispano-American Prize for his acclaimed first collection of stories, Acá el tiempo es otra cosa. The protagonists of these stories live on the edge of personal abyss, that place where the extraordinary can happen. Three pre-adolescent sisters carry out a fateful ritual. A data analyst decides to leave her baby on a balcony to better focus on her spreadsheets. A woman obsessed with her afternoon soap opera begins to hear a buzzing coming from her television. Beings from another planet, the Täkis, arrive on Earth and mesmerize the population. An authoritarian grandfather reveals his weakness during a visit with his grandson to a barbershop. Two bored girls spending their summer with their parents on the coast find in the place where birds die a unique source of distraction. A collection of stories about fragile balances and relationships stretched to the limit, El lugar donde mueren los pájaros reveals the inadvertently sinister underside of mundane everyday situations. In this much-anticipated second collection of stories, Downey confirms himself as a bold writer, adept at masterfully sliding from realism to the fantastic, with a unique voice.