Dead girls /
In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits, 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed, 15-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled and dumped in w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Edinburgh :
Charco Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits, 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed, 15-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled and dumped in wasteland and 20-year old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together a dry, straightforward portrait of gender violence that surpasses national borders and speaks to readers' consciousness all over the world. |
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| Item Description: | First published in Spain as Chicas muertas by Random House Mandadori (Argentina). |
| Physical Description: | iii, 146 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781916277847 1916277845 |