Claudia Piñeiro
1) All Yours
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Praise for Claudia Piñeiro's Thursday Night Widows:
"An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society."—José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
A gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina's class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie."—The Times Literary Supplement
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...2) Elena Knows
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Language
English
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After Rita is, found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.
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English
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Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty, and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Piñeiro's novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But...
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English
Description
Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten. Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright...
5) Betty Boo
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Language
English
Description
The fourth novel from Claudia Piñeiro, South America's best-selling crime novelist. When a renowned Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community called La Maravillosa, the novelist Nurit Iscar (once nicknamed Betty Boo owing to a resemblance to the cartoon character Betty Boop) is contracted by a former lover, the editor of a national newspaper, to cover the story. Nurit teams up with the paper's veteran, but...
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Español
Description
La moto con la cual Ernesto Guevara y Alberto Granado hicieron su viaje iniciático por la América profunda se llamaba La Poderosa.
Hace unos años, unas personas, compañeras y compañeros que adosaron a sus necesidades la memoria, fundaron la "Asociación Civil La Poderosa Integración por la Educación Popular". Hace tiempo que se los conoce fuera de sus barrios por una notable revista que dieron en llamar La garganta poderosa.
Los escritores...
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Inés sale en libertad, después de quince años presa por haber asesinado a Charo, la amante de su ex marido. Su vida ha cambiado, pero as̕ también la sociedad: el avance del feminismo, las leyes de matrimonio igualitario y del aborto, el lenguaje inclusivo. Inés, una ama de casa tradicional y a quien la maternidad no le resultó algo feliz, entiende que debe ser práctica y adaptarse. Aunque le cueste. Se asocia con la única amiga que hizo...