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9781916277847
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Publisher
Charco Press
ISBN-10
1916277845
ISBN-13
9781916277847
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038418744

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dead Girls
Number of Pages
146 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Contemporary Women, Crime, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Selva Almada
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.5 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

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Reviews
"Fate has in Dead Girls the perfume of a Greek tragedy: immutable, irreversible, lethal." --El País "Far from the detective story, this is an intimate tale, a certain negative of the autobiography of a young woman looking at other young women and how all of them are perceived by a society where misogyny and violence against them is still an everyday affair." --Página 12 "A tense, precise chronicle that treats seriously a still serious subject." --El Cultural, Spain "Selva Almada reinvents the imaginative rural world of a country. She is an author gifted with a very uncommon power and sensitivity." --Rolling Stone (Argentina), Almada combines reportage, fiction, and autobiography to explore femicide in Argentina in her acute, unflinching latest. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Almada's prose is sparse, but the details count. Her ear for dialogue and especially gossip is pitch perfect. Her eye for detail is hawkish. --LA Review of Books Part journalism, part history, part autobiography, part relentless nightmare. --Shelf Awareness, starred review Not an easy book, but it feels like an important one - a work of investigative writing about how easily women's lives are obscured. --The Scotsman An unassuming yet intensely felt narrative. (4 stars) --The Arts Desk This is a powerful read...[Almada's] effective use of fiction ensures a deep empathy in her readers which strict reportage sometimes fails to evoke. --The Big Issue Genre-defying, with beautifully crafted and reflective prose. --The F Word You'll walk away from this book with a vivid memory of where you were, how you were feeling, and what the weather was like on the day that you read Dead Girls. --Books and Bao The literary quality of the text shines. --Sound and Vision The prose strikes a perfect tone - clinical and punchy when necessary, angry and lyrical, brutal yet humanistic. --TN2 A tense, precise chronicle that treats seriously a still serious subject. --El Cultural A powerful read, shedding a stark light on the horrors of gender violence. --The Big Issue This is not a book that will make you feel at peace with the world, but that is precisely where its strength and persuasion lie. --Translating Women Challenge[s] the true crime obsession in an indirect way. --Pendora Magazine What makes the book compelling is how the author explores issues of domestic violence, state complicity, machismo and family negligence, along with class and social inequalities, in a non-sentimental prose which is all the more effective as result. --Morning Star The devastating conclusion of the narrator is that the women who survive are unlikely to have made it unscathed but they are lucky ones - lucky to be alive. --NB Magazine --New York Times Fate has in Dead Girls the perfume of a Greek tragedy: immutable, irreversible, lethal. --El País Far from the detective story, this is an intimate tale, a certain negative of the autobiography of a young woman looking at other young women and how all of them are perceived by a society where misogyny and violence against them is still an everyday affair. --Pagina/12 Selva Almada reinvents the imaginative rural world of a country. She is an author gifted with a very uncommon power and sensitivity. --Rolling Stone (Argentina) Praise for Selva Almada, Almada combines reportage, fiction, and autobiography to explore femicide in Argentina in her acute, unflinching latest. (Starred review) --Publishers Weekly An unassuming yet intensely felt narrative. (4 stars) --The Arts Desk Not an easy book, but it feels like an important one - a work of investigative writing about how easily women's lives are obscured. --The Scotsman Part journalism, part history, part autobiography, part relentless nightmare. (STARRED review) --Shelf Awareness Almada's prose is sparse, but the details count. Her ear for dialogue and especially gossip is pitch perfect. Her eye for detail is hawkish. --LA Review of Books You'll walk away from this book with a vivid memory of where you were, how you were feeling, and what the weather was like on the day that you read Dead Girls. --Books and Bao This is not a book that will make you feel at peace with the world, but that is precisely where its strength and persuasion lie. --Translating Women This is a powerful read...[Almada's] effective use of fiction ensures a deep empathy in her readers which strict reportage sometimes fails to evoke. --The Big Issue The prose strikes a perfect tone - clinical and punchy when necessary, angry and lyrical, brutal yet humanistic. --TN2 Challenge[s] the true crime obsession in an indirect way. --Pendora Magazine A powerful read, shedding a stark light on the horrors of gender violence. --The Big Issue What makes the book compelling is how the author explores issues of domestic violence, state complicity, machismo and family negligence, along with class and social inequalities, in a non-sentimental prose which is all the more effective as result. --Morning Star Genre-defying, with beautifully crafted and reflective prose. --The F Word Fate has in Dead Girls the perfume of a Greek tragedy: immutable, irreversible, lethal. --El País Far from the detective story, this is an intimate tale, a certain negative of the autobiography of a young woman looking at other young women and how all of them are perceived by a society where misogyny and violence against them is still an everyday affair. --Pagina/12 A tense, precise chronicle that treats seriously a still serious subject. --El Cultural Selva Almada reinvents the imaginative rural world of a country. She is an author gifted with a very uncommon power and sensitivity. --Rolling Stone (Argentina) The literary quality of the text shines. --Sound and Vision Praise for Selva Almada, Almada combines reportage, fiction, and autobiography to explore femicide in Argentina in her acute, unflinching latest. (Starred review) --Publishers Weekly An unassuming yet intensely felt narrative. (4 stars) --The Arts Desk Not an easy book, but it feels like an important one - a work of investigative writing about how easily women's lives are obscured. --The Scotsman Part journalism, part history, part autobiography, part relentless nightmare. (STARRED review) --Shelf Awareness You'll walk away from this book with a vivid memory of where you were, how you were feeling, and what the weather was like on the day that you read Dead Girls. --Books and Bao This is not a book that will make you feel at peace with the world, but that is precisely where its strength and persuasion lie. --Translating Women Fate has in Dead Girls the perfume of a Greek tragedy: immutable, irreversible, lethal. --El País Far from the detective story, this is an intimate tale, a certain negative of the autobiography of a young woman looking at other young women and how all of them are perceived by a society where misogyny and violence against them is still an everyday affair. --Pagina/12 A tense, precise chronicle that treats seriously a still serious subject. --El Cultural Selva Almada reinvents the imaginative rural world of a country. She is an author gifted with a very uncommon power and sensitivity. --Rolling Stone (Argentina) The literary quality of the text shines. --Sound and Vision FURTHER PRAISE, "Almada combines reportage, fiction, and autobiography to explore femicide in Argentina in her acute, unflinching latest." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "An unassuming yet intensely felt narrative. (4 stars)" --The Arts Desk "Not an easy book, but it feels like an important one - a work of investigative writing about how easily women's lives are obscured." --The Scotsman "Part journalism, part history, part autobiography, part relentless nightmare." --Shelf Awareness, starred review "Almada's prose is sparse, but the details count. Her ear for dialogue and especially gossip is pitch perfect. Her eye for detail is hawkish." --LA Review of Books "A powerful read, shedding a stark light on the horrors of gender violence." --The Big Issue "You'll walk away from this book with a vivid memory of where you were, how you were feeling, and what the weather was like on the day that you read Dead Girls." --Books and Bao "This is not a book that will make you feel at peace with the world, but that is precisely where its strength and persuasion lie." --Translating Women "The literary quality of the text shines." --Sound and Vision "This is a powerful read...[Almada's] effective use of fiction ensures a deep empathy in her readers which strict reportage sometimes fails to evoke." --The Big Issue "The prose strikes a perfect tone - clinical and punchy when necessary, angry and lyrical, brutal yet humanistic." --TN2 "Challenge[s] the true crime obsession in an indirect way. " --Pendora Magazine "What makes the book compelling is how the author explores issues of domestic violence, state complicity, machismo and family negligence, along with class and social inequalities, in a non-sentimental prose which is all the more effective as result." --Morning Star "Genre-defying, with beautifully crafted and reflective prose." --The F Word "The devastating conclusion of the narrator is that the women who survive are unlikely to have made it unscathed but they are lucky ones - lucky to be alive." --NB Magazine "It is a profound novel and call to action still relevant as activists continue to take to the streets throughout Latin America to decry, 'ni una más' (not one more)." --The Skinny "It's crisp, bracing, and beautiful." --White Review "Part coming-of-age, part detective work, partly a web of rumors, Almada's story fuses a variety of genres to create a work that splits the seams of personal narrative, journalism, and fiction." --NACLA "Exquisite prose that vibrates with a deep, melodious rage." --The Monthly Booking "Recounted with a lyrical simplicity that is almost brutal." --The Oxonian Review "Painstakingly investigated ... imbued with personal connection" --The Oxonian Review "Fate has in Dead Girls the perfume of a Greek tragedy: immutable, irreversible, lethal." --El País "Far from the detective story, this is an intimate tale, a certain negative of the autobiography of a young woman looking at other young women and how all of them are perceived by a society where misogyny and violence against them is still an everyday affair." --Pagina/12 "A tense, precise chronicle that treats seriously a still serious subject." --El Cultural "Selva Almada reinvents the imaginative rural world of a country. She is an author gifted with a very uncommon power and sensitivity." --Rolling Stone (Argentina) "Gripping, shocking and sad." --The Book Satchel "Dead Girls is a brutal, necessary story in which Almada describes the crimes, states the facts and lays bare the horror of these femicides." --Tony's Reading List, Almada combines reportage, fiction, and autobiography to explore femicide in Argentina in her acute, unflinching latest. (Starred review) --Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
32 vols.
Dewey Decimal
863/.7
Synopsis
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 the term 'femicide' became widely known: nineteen-year-old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; fifteen-year-old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and twenty-year-old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body washed up on a river bank. In this brutal yet deeply important book, Selva Almada weaves these and other cases of violence against women into a clear-eyed, multi-faceted portrait that has global resonance.This is not a police chronicle, although there is an investigation. This is not a thriller, although there is mystery and suspense. Hard-hitting and lyrical, Almada blazes a new trail in journalistic fiction., Not a police chronicle, not a thriller, but a contemporary noir novel of the ongoing catastrophe of femicide and the murder of three young women in interior of Argentina.
LC Classification Number
PQ7798.41.L5585C413

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