Claudia Piñeiro

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

AUTORA GALARDONADA CON PREMIO PEPE CARVALHO DE NOVELA NEGRA 2019 PREMIO BEST NOVEL DE VLC NEGRA 2021 PREMIO HAMMETT A LA MEJOR NOVELA DE G NERO NEGRO EN ESPA OL PUBLICADA EN 2020 La novela que consagr a Claudia Pi eiro, y que inspir la pel cula de Marcelo Pi eyro, presenta un cuadro implacable de la decadencia social de la Argentina del cambio de siglo. Detr s de las altas paredes perimetrales, m s all de los portones reforzados por barreras, se encuentra Altos de la Cascada. Afuera, la ruta, la barriada popular de Santa Mar a 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. All , un grupo de amigos se re ne semanalmente lejos de las miradas de sus hijos, sus empleadas dom sticas 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 pa s que se desmorona, el lado oscuro de una vida «perfecta . El para so est a punto de estallar. Las viudas de los jueves fue galardonada con el Premio Clar n de Novela 2005. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Pi eiro'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 Pi eiro'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 Pi eiro'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 Pi eyro 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"--Jos 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 "Pi eiro 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) "Pi eiro 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