Bøger af Claudia Piñeiro

After 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 characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

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, one of their clients, wants Inés to do more than kill bugs - she wants her expertise, and her criminal past, to help her kill her husband's lover, too. Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other--this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.

-Son gente rara, ¿no te parece? -Qué sé yo -le contesta él. -¿Quién no es un poco raro? Éste es el nuevo e impactante libro de cuentos de Claudia Piñeiro. Un conjunto de relatos que, como breves escenas cotidianas, abordan situaciones en las que todos podemos sentirnos reconocidos. Algunas son rarezas que pasan inadvertidas, pequeñas obsesiones que hacen su juego en medio de la rutina de los días; otras pueden llevar al crimen, pero siempre anidan en lo más secreto de las personas. Un hombre egoísta realiza un acto generoso, un muerto puede hablar a través de sus pertenencias, un solitario vive su noche de amor de la manera más absurda, una pareja crea su propio infierno, un escritor famoso se oculta en su prestigio, y así, como ellos, todos los protagonistas de estas historias se ven enfrentados a fantasmas más o menos reales. En estos cuentos certeros, cercanos y valientes corre la sangre, a veces a borbotones, y otras como un fino hilo rojo sobre cualquier tejido, para recordarnos que nadie está a salvo de la violencia y que detrás de nuestras máscaras de gente normal todos somos «un poco raros».

Un joven ingresa al mundo de la política por las razones equivocadas y debe afrontar las dramáticas consecuencias.«Alguien puede llegar a la política por muchos motivos. Unos más legítimos, otros menos. También por error, por desidia. O por no saber decir que no.»Román Sabaté entra al mundo de la política casi por casualidad, pero es allí donde se sella su destino. La permanente tensión entre la necesidad de trabajo de un joven de provincia y las ocultas intenciones del político que lo ha elegido como secretario privado es lo que mueve los hilos de esta novela: dos hombres en conflicto en una historia en la que hasta la paternidad está en juego. Magia, doble discurso o crimen, todo vale. Las maldiciones desnuda la verdad de la llamada ""nueva política"", basada en un pragmatismo absoluto que esconde la inescrupulosidad del engaño y la ambición sin límites.Claudia Piñeiro ha escrito una novela certera, conmovedora y actual, que pone el foco en las perversiones de los gobernantes, pero que también les hace lugar a las historias de lealtad y amor más verdaderas.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONClaudia Piñeiro strikes again with a moving plot that ties in current affairs into one extraordinary novel A young man enters the world of politics for the wrong reasons and must face dramatic consequences. Claudia Piñeiro has written a moving novel that deals with a lot of current events, which focuses on the perversions of rulers, but also gives rise to the stories of loyalty and true love. "Las maldiciones" (The curses) bare the truth of the so-called ""new politics"", based on an absolute pragmatism that hides the unscrupulousness of deception and ambition without limits. Román Sabaté enters the world of politics almost by chance, but it is there where his destiny is sealed. The permanent tension between the need for work of a young provincial and the hidden intentions of the politician who has chosen him as private secretary is what makes this novel so intriguing and creates an undeniably exquisite plot that is a constant page-turner."

Autora galardonada con el Premio Pepe Carvalho de Novela Negra 2019 Enigma policial y conflicto íntimo se unen en esta novela de la autora de Las viudas de los jueves. Poco después de que Rita aparezca muerta en la iglesia que suele frecuentar, la investigación se da por cerrada y su madre es la única que no renuncia a esclarecer el crimen. Pero asediada por la enfermedad, ella es también la menos indicada para encabezar la búsqueda del asesino.Un penoso viaje de los suburbios a la Capital y una conversación reveladora guían la trama de esta novela íntima y crítica donde el cuerpo femenino es el verdadero protagonista.Elena sabe desnuda a la vez los secretos de sus personajes y las facetas ocultas del autoritarismo y la hipocresía que pueden determinar el curso de una vida. Un relato que rompe el silencio y se pronuncia en voz alta sobre la libertad de elegir. Fue galardonada con el Premio LiBeraturpreis 2010 a la mejor novela escrita por una mujer.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Claudia Piñeiro, winning author of the Pepe Carvalho de Novela Negra 2019 Prize. A police mystery and internal conflict come together in this novel by the author of Thursday Night Widows. Soon after Rita's body is found, the investigation into her death is closed. Her mother seems to be the only one unwilling to give up on the truth, but racked by illness she is the least likely candidate to go after a murderer. A difficult trip from the suburbs to the capital, an old debt of gratitude, and a revealing conversation are the facts that are unfolded in this novel. It is an intimate, yet critical novel which holds the female body as its real protagonist as it uncovers secrets, the hidden facets of an authoritarian regime, and society's hypocrisy. This is a story that breaks through the silence and loudly ratifies the freedom to choose. In 2010 Piñeiro was awarded the LiBeraturpreis Prize for the best novel written by a woman.

Not for nothing is Claudia Pieiro Argentinas most popular crime writer. Betty Boo is original, witty and hugely entertaining; it mixes murder with love, political power and journalism."e; Times-London"e;Those willing to take the time to enjoy the style and the unusual denouement will find themselves wondering why more crime authors dont take the kinds of risks Pieiro does."e; BooklistThe fourth novel from Claudia Pieiro, South America's best-selling crime novelist.When a renowned Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community called La Maravillosa, the novelist Nurit Iscar (once nicknamed Betty Boo owing to a resemblance to the cartoon character Betty Boop) is contracted by a former lover, the editor of a national newspaper, to cover the story. Nurit teams up with the paper's veteran, but now demoted, crime reporter. Soon they realize that they are falling in love, which complicates matters deliciously. The murder is no random crime but one in a series that goes to the heart of the establishment. Five members of the Argentine industrial and political elite, who all went to the same boarding-school, have died in apparently innocent circumstances. The Maravillosa murder is just the last in the series and those in power in Argentina are not about to allow all this brought to light. Too much is at stake.

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 Pieiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Plyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) and Thursday Night Widows.

Praise for Claudia Pieiro's Thursday Night Widows:"e;An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.Jos Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureA gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentinas 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 WeeklyInes is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernestos briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words All Yours and signed, Your true love.She follows him to a park on a rainy winter evening and witnesses a violent quarrel he has with another woman. The woman collapses; Ernesto sinks her body in a nearby lake. When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the case she provides him with an alibi. After all, hatred can bring people together as urgently as love. But Ernesto cannot bring his sexual adventures to an end, so Ines concocts a plan for revenge from which there is no return.Claudia Pieiro, formerly a journalist and playwright, is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into six languages. All Yours follows on the success of Thursday Night Widows, published in 2010 in the United States.

"e;An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"e;Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!';Pieiro's clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.'Publishers Weekly';Pieiro 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)"e;Pieiro 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."e;Times Literary Supplement';A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the afluent Western world as a whole.'Rosa MonteroThree 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 Pieiro'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 Pieiro'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 of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine New Wave and award-winning director Marcelo Pieyro is coming soon with trailers available online.Claudia Pieiro was a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pleyade Annual Journalism Award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title to be available in English.