Claudia Piñeiro
1) Elena knows
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Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Taking place in a single, this is the story of Elena's trek across Buenos Aires to learn the truth about her daughter's death. In the course of the day, she is forced to redefine everything she thought she knew about her daughter, herself, and a fleeting encounter, twenty years before.
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Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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A dying marriage, a dead-end career—but a young woman and a murder change everything for a Buenos Aires architect.|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...
3) 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
“A
...4) Catedrales
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Una adolescente aparece quemada y descuartizada en un descampado. Treinta años después, el crimen sigue sin aclararse y su familia y entorno se han desmoronado. Hace treinta años, en un terreno baldío de un barrio tranquilo, apareció descuartizado y quemado el cadáver de una adolescente. La investigación se cerró sin culpables y su familia -de clase media educada, formal y católica- silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando Pero, pasado ese...
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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. -- from Amazon.
6) Elena sabe
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Series
Publisher
Clarín-Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Although everyone else believes her daughter, Rita, commited suicide, Elena is sure that cannot be so, and, in spite of her ill health, undertakes a difficult journey to the capital to talk to a woman whom Rita talked out of having an abortion.
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfagura
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Detrás de las altas paredes perimetrales, más allá de los portones reforzados por barreras, se encuentra Altos de la Cascada. Afuera, la ruta, la barriada popular de Santa María de los Tigrecitos, la autopista, la ciudad, el resto del mundo. En Altos de la Cascada viven familias que llevan un mismo estilo de vida y que quieren mantenerlo cueste lo que cueste. Allí, un grupo de amigos se reúne semanalmente lejos de las miradas de sus hijos, sus...
9) Quién no
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"This is Claudia Piñeiro's powerful new book of short stories. A set of stories that, like short every-day scenes, deal with situations that we can all relate to. Some are quirks and oddities that go unnoticed, small obsessions that make their way into daily routines; others can lead to crimes, but are usually resting latent within people's souls. A selfish man performs an act of generosity, a dead person speaks through his belongings, a recluse...
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"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...
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