Crime books from Argentina
Recommended crime books (11)
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If you are into crime here are some crime books from Argentina for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimopulos EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
This highly acclaimed contemporary Argentinian novel is the first in Giramondo’s Literature of the South series, featuring innovative fiction and non-fiction by writers of the southern hemisphere. It is translated from the Spanish by Australian translator Alice Whitmore. All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Málaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) and back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, and relationship to relationship. Within the complexity of the ... continue
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All Yours by Claudia Piñeiro EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
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 A fine morality tale which explores the dark places societies enter when they place material comfort before social justice, and security before morality." Publishers Weekly Ines is convinced that every wife is bound to be ... continue
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Buenos Aires noir : antología de cuentos policiales by Inés Garland ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Short stories featuring “crimes of passion, politics, and perversity,” set in this tumultuous South American city (Publishers Weekly). It is a city of contradictions and chaos; crude, transitory violence, the lack of law and order, the ubiquitously hurled insult, the thunderous boom of traffic, and honking curses. Its inhabitants love the city and hate it—from the multimillionaires of Puerto Madero to the workers in the “misery cities,” the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Often the mansions are separated from the shanties by nothing but a single street or railroad track. These short sto... continue
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Cometierra by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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Crimenes Imperceptibles by Guillermo Martínez ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Pocos dias despues de haber llegado a Oxford, un joven estudiante argentino encuentra el cadaver de una anciana que ha sido asfixiada con un almohadon. El asesinato resulta ser un desafio intelectual lanzado a uno de lo logicos mas eminentes del siglo, Arthur Seldom, y el primero de una serie de crimenes Mientras la policia investiga a una sucesion de sospechosos, maestro y discipulo llevan adelante su propia intestigacion, amenazados por las derivaciones cada vez mas riesgosas de sus conjeturas.Crimenes imperceptibles, que conjuga a los sombrios hospitales ingleses con lo juegos de lenguaje d... continue
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Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Author of International Booker Finalist Not a River Internationally acclaimed author of Not a River , Selva Almada tackles the issue of gender violence in this hybrid work that follows in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or John Hersey's Hiroshima .Evoking with intimate first-hand knowledge the heat and dust of provincial Argentina, with all its secrets and conflicting loyalties, Almada tells the stories of three young women murdered in the early 1980s, as the country was celebrating its return to democracy. Three deaths that were never brought to justice and occurred long before... continue
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Eartheater by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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La pregunta de sus ojos by Eduardo Alfredo Sacheri ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Benjamín Chaparro es un funcionario judicial que todavía sigue obsesionado por la brutal, décadas de antigüedad violación y asesinato de una joven casada en su propio dormitorio. Mientras intenta escribir un libro sobre el caso, él revisita los detalles de la investigación. Cuando busca en el pasado, Chaparro también recuerda el principio de su largo, y no correspondido amor por Irene Hornos, por aquel entonces solamente una pasante, ahora una respetable juez.
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The Fragility of Bodies by Sergio Olguin EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a ju... continue
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Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Piñeiro EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
"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.”—T... continue