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Dead Girls | Selva Almada
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In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together a dry, straightforward portrait of gender violence that surpasses national borders and speaks to readers' consciousness all over the world.Following the success of The Wind That Lays Waste, internationally acclaimed Argentinian author Selva Almada dives into the heart of this problem with a reported novel, comparable to Truman Capote's _In Cold Blood _or John Hersey's Hiroshima, in response to the urgent need for attention to the ongoing catastrophe that is femicide.Not a police chronicle, not a thriller, but a contemporary noir novel that lives in the hearts of these women and the men who have abused them. Almada captures the invisible, and with lyrical brutality, blazes a new trail in journalistic fiction.
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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
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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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