Claudia Piñeiro
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pablo Simó's life is a mess. His career as an architect is at a dead-end; he is reduced to designing soulless office buildings desecrating the heart of Buenos Aires. His marriage seems to be one endless argument with his wife over the theatrics of their rebellious teenage daughter. To complicate matters, Pablo has long been attracted to sexy office secretary Marta Horvat, who is probably having an affair with his boss. Everything changes with the...
2) All Yours
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
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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...3) Elena knows
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
4) Betty Boo
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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 now demoted, crime reporter. Soon they realize that they are falling in love, which...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Inés is released after fifteen years in prison for murdering Charo, the lover of her ex-husband. Her life has changed, but so has the society with the progress of feminism, the laws for equal marriage and abortion, and the use of inclusive language. Now Inés, a traditional housewife for whom motherhood was not a happy experience, understands that she must be practical and that has to adapt. Even if it costs her. She associates with La Manca, the...
6) Tuya
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
"Un corazón dibujado con rouge, cruzado por un <> y firmado <> le revela a Inés que su marido la engaña. A partir de ahí, una original novela de suspense, un ama de casa dispuesta a todo con tal de conservar su matrimonio y las buenas apariencias."--P. [4] of cover.
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Buenos Aires: city of contrasts, contradictions; always on the edge of chaos; in love with its own disorder despite the crude, transitory violence, the lack of law and order, the ubiquitously hurled insult, the thunderous boom of traffic, and honking, hurled curses. Its inhabitants love/hate the city. In the language of the port-dwellers, irony is currency. The multimillionaires of Puerto Madero deal in this irony with as fluently as the workers...
