"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winner
The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!
“Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly
“Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermining Argentine society, and the fragility of personal relationships. We learn the surprising truth of the three men’s death in the final chapter; the build-up to it is riveting.”—The Times (London)
"Piñeiro builds up tension through banal, domestic details and the accretion of despair in everyday marital and professional struggles. There may be bloody murder at the centre of this novel, but 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."—Times Literary Supplement
“A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the afluent Western world as a whole.”—Rosa Montero
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 byproduct 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 meltdown in Argentina, but it is a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today.
The film of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine New Wave and award-winning director Marcelo Piñeyro is coming soon with trailers available online.
Claudia Piñeiro was a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade Annual 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.

Thursday Night Widows

Literature & Fiction

Claudia Piñeiro

Contemporary

Bitter Lemon Press

Feltrinelli

¿Qué precio hay que pagar para dar una vuelta de timón y decidirse a vivir los propios sueños? Aunque Pablo Simó quiere construir la torre de sus sueños, se limita a dibujarla: hace veinte años que trabaja en un estudio de arquitectura que no puede o no quiere dejar. Veinte años son también los que lleva casado con Laura, a quien sólo lo unen la costumbre y una hija típicamente adolescente. Cuando una joven llegue inesperadamente al estudio buscando a Nelson Jara, comenzará a revelarse la trama del secreto en la que Simó está implicado junto a su jefe y una compañera de trabajo. La aparición de la muchacha y las derivaciones de ese hecho del pasado abrirán una grieta en la precaria estabilidad del arquitecto, que verá derrumbarse una a una las certezas que lo sostuvieron hasta el momento. La autora de Las viudas de los jueves demuestra una vez más su capacidad para construir personajes y contar historias en las que el suspenso no impide la pintura social ni la crítica. Las grietas de Jara es, en ese sentido, una reflexión acerca del matrimonio y la crisis de la mediana edad, y las dificultades de vivir en un mundo donde las reglas las imponen los más fuertes. Una novela que inquieta con la pregunta de si para dar una vuelta de timón y navegar hacia otro rumbo, no será necesario a veces dejar de lado la inocencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION What is the price of living your dreams? Pablo Simó has always wanted to build the tower of his dreams; instead he paints it. For the past 20 years he's been working the same job, married to a woman to whom his only ties are habit and a teenage daughter. The unexpected appearance of a young woman will reveal a secret conspiracy in which Simó, his boss and a coworker are implicated. The consequences of this event from the past will create a cack in the architect's precarious stability, demolishing one of the convictions that have always sustained him.

Las grietas de Jara (Spanish Edition)

United States

Alfaguara

Betibu

Soon after Rita's body is found, the investigation of her death is closed. Her mother seems to be the only one unwilling to give up on the truth, but racked by illness she is the least likely candidate to go after a murderer. A difficult trip from the suburbs to the capital, an old debt of gratitude, and a revealing conversation, are the facts that are unfolded in this novel -a novel that uncovers the hidden faces of an authoritarian regime and the hypocrisy of society.

Elena sabe (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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