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"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society”—José Saramago "
Synopsis
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 this is more than a story about crime.
The suspense is a by-product of Piñeiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives beyond its means and leads secret lives of deadly stress and despair.
It takes place during the post 9/11 economic melt-down in Argentina but it’s a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today.
Production is expected in 2009 of the film of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine new wave and award winning director Marcelo Piñeyro.
Translated by Miranda France
PUB DATE: July 9, 2009 MARKET: Fiction/Crime Fiction BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £7.99 SIZE: B • 287 pages BIC CODE: FA/FF ISBN: 978-1-904738-411 REPORT CODE: NP
My Review
This read delves in to the lives of the residents of an exclusive rich neighbourhood, Cascades Heights, in South America, the perfect community.
When three men are found dead in the swimming pool of one of the homes by one of the wife of one of the victims, a simple poker night ends in death, murder? suicide, revenge we are left with massive questions of why?.
The shocking events uncover more than any of this well off residents are prepared for.
but in no way is this a normal crime tale, with no police involvement in the story we are left with just the residents as there lives unfold around this drama, who has secrets and who will kill to keep them?
This is a captivating mystery surrounded by social issues and the underlying current of the problems in the area, class and the sense of knowing where you have come from offer unique insights into these characters, and the feeling that what ever is happening is not build on solid ground and the cards are about to start falling as the truth is revealed
This was a wonderful story and translation that I became fully engrossed in as i was reading at speed to uncover the real truth in the tale, and a ending that left me wanting more.
Author Bio
The Author
Claudia Piñeiro was a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title to be available in English.
The Translator
Miranda France wrote Bad Times in Buenos Aires which in essay form won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize in The Spectator magazine. A book by the same title was published in 1998 and met with great critical acclaim. The New York Times described it as 'a remarkable achievement' and the Sunday Times as 'an outstanding book'.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.
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