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Bitter Lemon Press
July 2009
On Sale: July 9, 2009
269 pages
ISBN: 1904738419
EAN: 9781904738411
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Suspense
"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"โJosรฉ Saramago The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves! 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 Piรฑeiro'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 Piรฑeiro'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 Piรฑeyro is coming soon with trailers available online. Claudia Piรฑeiro was a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Plรฉyade 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.
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