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Chicas Muertas / Dead Girls
Chicas Muertas / Dead Girls | Selva Almada
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Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los años ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuando todavía, en nuestro país, desconocíamos el término femicidio. Tres asesinatos entre los cientos que no alcanzan para titulares de tapa ni convocan a las cámaras de los canales de Buenos Aires. Tres casos que llegan desordenados: los anuncia la radio, los conmemora un diario de pueblo, alguien los recuerda en una conversación. Tres crímenes ocurridos en el interior del país, mientras la Argentina festejaba el regreso de la democracia. Tres muertes sin culpables. Convertidos en obsesión con el paso de los años, estos casos dan lugar a una investigación atípica e infructuosa. La prosa nítida de Selva Almada plasma en negro lo invisible, y las formas cotidianas de la violencia contra nenas y mujeres pasan a integrar una misma trama intensa y vívida. Con este libro, la autora abre nuevos rumbos a la no ficción latinoamericana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Three murders out of the hundreds that never reach the headlines or attract the video cameras from the Buenos Aires news stations. Three cases that arrive disorganized: the radio announces them, a smalltown newspaper commemorates them, someone remembers them during a conversation. Three crimes committed in the interior of the country, while Argentina is celebrating the return of democracy. Three deaths without culprits. Converted into more of an obsession with each passing year, these cases give rise to an unusual and fruitless investigation.
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AnneCecilie
Dead Girls | Selva Almada
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In 1983 15 yr Maria Louisa Quebec‘s is found dead. In 1986 Andrea Danne is found dead. In1988 20 yr old Sarita Mundin. 3 of many unsolved murders on women, and Almada looks into them reading the old newspaper notes, police reports and talking with their families.

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Emilymdxn
Dead Girls | Selva Almada
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A gorgeously written albeit very painful book about the murders of some teenage girls in poor, rural Argentina in the 1980s, and wider issues of violence against women. As well as being a moving and intimate look at the victims and the crimes, I felt like I learned a lot about the area and the towns‘ cultures and the victims‘ families over thirty years. I very strongly recommend for a different kind of true crime read.

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Emilymdxn
Dead Girls | Selva Almada
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My (very badly photographed) #cosynightin is me under a blanket reading the tagged book by candlelight. It seems never to have been posted about on Litsy before which is a shame because it‘s really excellent! Literary true crime, a little like a more stream of consciousness In Cold Blood, in 1980s Argentina. Really outstanding book.

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