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  • Cathedrals

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    **Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go.**Thirty years ago, in an empty plot of a quiet neighbourhood, a teenage girl's body was found quartered and burned. The investigation ended with no arrests and her family – middle class, educated, Catholic – quietly disintegrated. Three decades later, the hidden truth comes to light thanks to ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time of the Flies

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena KnowsFifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they’ve started a business – FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies – dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Little Luck

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. She is not the same—not her name or voice, not even the color of her eyes. The neighborhood looks different too, but she’s still the same woman and it’s still the same place, and as the past ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elena Knows

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After 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 ... Read more

    $18.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scraps for the Hens

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Fiona Mackintosh ...
    Sixteen tight, electric short stories that capture Claudia Piñeiro at her very best—the devastating, offhand brutality of being a woman in a world organized to keep her in her place. Resignation, violence, and rebellion are all always options. And Piñeiro remains unmatched in her whiplash dry wit, chronicling the demands of love and family life that shift from the personal to the political ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Thursday Night Widows

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    "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 winnerThe 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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Betty Boo

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    A tightly plotted mystery novel set in contemporary Argentina and recently made into a film (“Betibu”, directed by Miguel Cohan) acclaimed at the 2014 London Film Festival.The author has won the Clarin Prize and is South America’s bestselling crime novelist (selling over 250,000 copies per title). She is translated in French, Italian and German.A novelist and ex-journalist investigates a series of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Crack in the Wall

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    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 assumed was forgotten.Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Elena Knows

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Narrated by Sally Masterson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After 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 ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • All Yours

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    A tightly plotted, short crime novel (186 pages) set in contemporary Buenos Aires. The story of two deaths, one seemingly accidental and one a cold-blooded murder, a portrait of a wife betrayed, at first desperate to save her marriage but then intent on violent revenge, also an unrelenting dissection of family life among the Argentine middle class.As usual for Piñeiro, the novel is more than a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Buenos Aires Noir

    by Ernesto Mallo, Inés Garland, Inés Fernández Moreno, Ariel Magnus, Alejandro Parisi, Pablo De Santis, Verónica Abdala, Alejandro Soifer, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Enzo Maqueira0, Elsa Osorio1, Leandro Ávalos Blacha2, Claudia Piñeiro3, María Inés Krimer4 ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "A good introduction is Buenos Aires Noir, in the ever-reliable Akashic Noir series, edited by the novelist Ernesto Mallo. Mallo himself is a playwright, script writer and crime novelist with the Superintendent Lascano series, a couple of which have been translated into English."--CrimeReads, included in a roundup of Crime Novels of Buenos Aires"Crimes of passion, politics, and perversity pervade ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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