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The Fragility of Bodies
The Fragility of Bodies | Sergio Olguín
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When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal ‘accidents’ on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a junkie in rehab and two street kids willing to risk everything for a can of Coke, she uncovers a group of men involved in betting on working-class youngsters convinced to play Russian roulette by standing in front of fast-coming trains to see who endures the longest.
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CaroPi
The Fragility of Bodies | Sergio Olguín
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They are some things that I didn't like but in general is a very interesting #thriller also is from #Argentina and I almost never read thrillers from South America.

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rockpools
The Fragility of Bodies | Sergio Olguín
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Anyone that grew up in Britain in the 70s/80s and was subjected to/had nightmares about *those* public information films: this is the railway tracks one, transferred to Argentina, with more sex, an added criminal element, & the train drivers‘ perspective. The story‘s good, but I‘m struggling to get through it - pretty sure those films scarred me for life. I really wanted to finish it today... (I am on 24% rather than 1% now, so there‘s something).

squirrelbrain Oh my gosh, those films! 😧 4y
rockpools @squirrelbrain I‘m sure there‘d be complaints today. Terrifying! 4y
Balibee146 I rember the hypothermia one.... Guy in a black boiler suit staggering through the snow 😱😱 4y
rockpools @Balibee146 🥶 Sounds like the start of a thriller! I wonder if they were regional? I don‘t think we had that one, but I‘m sure they rolled out the railway tracks and electricity pylons ones every year... 4y
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charl08
The Fragility of Bodies | Sergio Olguín
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The law of bookclub books. (Modestly, I'm calling this Charlotte's law)
Bookclub books should not be over 300 pages.
This one isn't terrible: but because it's a bookclub one I feel like I can't skim, and I have so many other books in the TBR!

rockpools There‘s no way I‘m going to get through this today... but I really want to bookclub this evening... 4y
charl08 @rockpools I feel a book rant coming on.... 4y
rockpools @charl08 Good stuff! Does it relate to men writing women by any chance? I‘m only a quarter in, but finding some of it quite uncomfortable. 4y
charl08 @rockpools I think that one is def going to come up! 4y
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