An excellent choice for fans of international crime stories.' - Booklist 'Claudia Piñeiro's Thursday Night Widows is an interesting novel. A fast-paced thriller, Pineiro's novel describes and critiques the lifestyles of Argentina's nouveau riche, chronicling their rise into the exclusive world of the Heights and their downfalls as the economy sours after 9/11. But she is always a bit of an outsider, one of the few women who work, and when theīodies of three of the most prominent men in the community are found dead in a neighbor's backyard pool, she must decide where her loyalties lie, since her husband was visiting the three men shortly before their deaths. Readers gradually become acquainted with the rich families of the Heights through Maria, who is privy to their secrets, selling them their homes while living in the community herself. "An attention-grabbing story with cinematic rhythmĪnd the vigour of a punch in the stomach.'In an exclusive gated community 30 miles outside of Buenos Aires, Maria Virginia works as a real-estate agent after her husband loses his job. Not only of Argentina, but of the affluent Western world as a whole." "A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait In an accelerating process of decadence." "An unrelenting analysis of a social microcosm Claudia Piñeiro has invented this story before it took place in a similar way, and, in sparse and powerful prose, tells of a crime that generated a scandal in the Argentinean media.
Had not Romina - psychologically victimised by her adoptive mother for her dark skin - and her boyfriend Juani witnessed the event, no one would ever have known what really happened.
The novel opens with the discovery of the three men's corpses in the pool. Yet instead of rolling up their sleeves, three devoted family fathers from Cascada find an alternative solution in order to save their loved ones from lowering their accustomed standard of living, let alone their wives having to do the housework. And finally, the economical consequences of 9/11 and Argentina's crisis take their toll. Behind this façade, however, lie conflicts that cross all borders of social class: Infidelity, alcoholism, infertility and abusive marriage. Behind locked doors, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, it is seemingly occupied with troubles such as the summer's drought of the communal golf course.
In Thursday Night Widows, fifty kilometres outside the gates of Buenos Aires lives the small society of Altos de la Cascada.
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