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Las Viudas de Los Jueves (60 Aniversario de Alfaguara) / Thursday Night Widows - Paperback

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by Claudia Pi?eiro (Author)

AUTORA GALARDONADA CON
PREMIO PEPE CARVALHO DE NOVELA NEGRA 2019
PREMIO BEST NOVEL DE VLC NEGRA 2021
PREMIO HAMMETT A LA MEJOR NOVELA DE GÉNERO NEGRO EN ESPAÑOL PUBLICADA EN 2020

La novela que consagró a Claudia Piñeiro, y que inspiró la película de Marcelo Piñeyro, presenta un cuadro implacable de la decadencia social de la Argentina del cambio de siglo.

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 empleadas domésticas y sus esposas, quienes, excluidas del encuentro varonil, se autodenominan, bromeando, «las viudas de los jueves . Pero una noche la rutina se quiebra y ese hecho permite descubrir, en un país que se desmorona, el lado oscuro de una vida «perfecta . El paraíso está a punto de estallar.

Las viudas de los jueves fue galardonada con el Premio Clarín de Novela 2005.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"Piñeiro's clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11."--Publishers Weekly

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 Thursday's Widows, by Argentine New Wave and award-winning director Marcelo Piñeyro is now streaing on Netflix.

"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

"A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the afluent Western world as a whole."--Rosa Montero

"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

Author Biography

Claudia Piñeiro nació en el Gran Buenos Aires en 1960. Es escritora, dramaturga, guionista de televisión y colaboradora de distintos medios gráficos. Ha publicado las novelas Las viudas de los jueves, Tuya, Elena sabe, Las grietas de Jara, Betibú, Un comunista en calzoncillos, Una suerte pequeña, Las maldiciones, Catedrales y El tiempo de las moscas. En 2018, Alfaguara publicó sus cuentos reunidos en Quién no, y en 2021, en Argentina, un volumen con sus obras de teatro, Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro. Por su obra literaria, teatral y periodística, ha obtenido diversos premios nacionales e internacionales, entre otros el Premio Clarín de Novela, el Premio LiBeraturpreis, el Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, el Premio Rosalía de Castro del PEN (Club de Poetas, Ensayistas y Narradores de Galicia), el Premio Pepe Carvalho del Festival Barcelona Negra, el Premio Dashiell Hammett de la Semana Negra de Gijón, el Premio Negra y Criminal del Festival Tenerife Noir y el Premio Best Novel del Festival Valencia Negra, y fue finalista del International Booker Prize 2022 con la traducción de Elena sabe al inglés. Como coautora, junto con Marcelo Piñeyro, de la serie de televisión El reino, obtuvo el Premio Platino a mejores creadores de series. Varias de sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine. Es una de las escritoras argentinas más traducidas a otros idiomas, lo que hace que sus libros sean leídos y disfrutados por miles de lectores en todo el mundo.

Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: July 16, 2024
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